On 03/19/2014 10:37 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> writes: >>> On 03/17/2014 05:49 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: >>>> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/20140320UpdateIssues >> >>> Anyone? We're going public with this in 36 hours, so I'd love for it to >>> actually be correct. >> >> I did a bit more hacking on this page. Could use another look from Alvaro >> and/or Andres, I'm sure. > > Edited, mainly to remove mention of FOR NO KEY UPDATE as a possible > cause of the problem. I don't know that this can cause an issue, since > that lock level conflicts with updates. > > I wonder about suggesting other versions of ALTER TABLE that can do > heap rewrites.
I don't want to recommend any version of ALTER TABLE until someone actually tests it on a corrupted database. What about simply CREATE TABLE AS SELECT? Presumably that kind of manual cleanup would work, no? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
