urgent: db corruption - invalid TIDs?

Started by Ned Lillyalmost 23 years ago5 messages
#1Ned Lilly
ned@nedscape.com

Has anyone seen this behavior? It's corrupted a production database.

ERROR: heap_mark4update: (am)invalid tid
WARNING: Error occurred while executing PL/pgSQL function issuewomaterial
WARNING: line 40 at SQL statement

#2Ned Lilly
ned@nedscape.com
In reply to: Ned Lilly (#1)
Re: urgent: db corruption - invalid TIDs?

ps - this is on 7.3.1. It never happened on 7.2.3...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ned Lilly" <ned@nedscape.com>
To: "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 11:04 AM
Subject: [HACKERS] urgent: db corruption - invalid TIDs?

Has anyone seen this behavior? It's corrupted a production database.

ERROR: heap_mark4update: (am)invalid tid
WARNING: Error occurred while executing PL/pgSQL function issuewomaterial
WARNING: line 40 at SQL statement

#3Justin Clift
justin@postgresql.org
In reply to: Ned Lilly (#1)
Re: urgent: db corruption - invalid TIDs?

Ned Lilly wrote:

Has anyone seen this behavior? It's corrupted a production database.

Hi Ned,

Just as information filler, which version of PostgreSQL, and which
operating system?

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

ERROR: heap_mark4update: (am)invalid tid
WARNING: Error occurred while executing PL/pgSQL function issuewomaterial
WARNING: line 40 at SQL statement

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#4Robert Treat
xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
In reply to: Ned Lilly (#2)
Re: urgent: db corruption - invalid TIDs?

I don't know if this is terribly helpful, but the message was around in
7.2.x, look at src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c around line 1808 (or
1823 in the 7.3.x code)

That said, I've not seen it before, perhaps you can expand upon what
your function is doing?

Robert Treat

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On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 11:06, Ned Lilly wrote:

ps - this is on 7.3.1. It never happened on 7.2.3...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ned Lilly" <ned@nedscape.com>
To: "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 11:04 AM
Subject: [HACKERS] urgent: db corruption - invalid TIDs?

Has anyone seen this behavior? It's corrupted a production database.

ERROR: heap_mark4update: (am)invalid tid
WARNING: Error occurred while executing PL/pgSQL function issuewomaterial
WARNING: line 40 at SQL statement

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#5Ned Lilly
ned@nedscape.com
In reply to: Robert Treat (#4)
Re: urgent: db corruption - invalid TIDs?

We've done a bit more digging, and think we understand the problem. Looks like 7.3.1 is just now taking advantage of a performance flag that has been ignored up to now. The error message is a bit unclear.

When we close this out internally, we'll document our findings to the list. So, in short, "never mind."

Thanks,
NL

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ned Lilly" <ned@nedscape.com>
To: "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] urgent: db corruption - invalid TIDs?

ps - this is on 7.3.1. It never happened on 7.2.3...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ned Lilly" <ned@nedscape.com>
To: "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 11:04 AM
Subject: [HACKERS] urgent: db corruption - invalid TIDs?

Has anyone seen this behavior? It's corrupted a production database.

ERROR: heap_mark4update: (am)invalid tid
WARNING: Error occurred while executing PL/pgSQL function issuewomaterial
WARNING: line 40 at SQL statement