VACUUM failing ??!!

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Hi,

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Sally Sally wrote:

After running for more than 24 hrs (I have a large db), vacuum failed with
this message:
ERROR: failed to re-find parent key in "pg_type_typname_nsp_index"
Has anybody encountered this before?

AFAIR, you have to REINDEX pg_type to get rid of this error.

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"Sally Sally" <dedeb17@hotmail.com> writes:

After running for more than 24 hrs (I have a large db), vacuum failed with
this message:
ERROR: failed to re-find parent key in "pg_type_typname_nsp_index"

What PG version?

regards, tom lane

Version 7.4
(I just re-indexed and I'm running vacuum again)

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Sally Sally" <dedeb17@hotmail.com>
CC: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] VACUUM failing ??!! Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 11:04:00
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"Sally Sally" <dedeb17@hotmail.com> writes:

After running for more than 24 hrs (I have a large db), vacuum failed

with

this message:
ERROR: failed to re-find parent key in "pg_type_typname_nsp_index"

What PG version?

regards, tom lane

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"Salem Berhanu" <salemb4@hotmail.com> writes:

Version 7.4
(I just re-indexed and I'm running vacuum again)

I wonder if this is a variant of the concurrent-page-split
problem Joe Conway found. That's fixed in 7.4.5 and later.
Was this a plain vacuum, or vacuum full?

regards, tom lane