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Ed L.

2005-04-27, 8:24 pm


This is for PostgreSQL 7.4.6 on hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.00, compiled
by GCC 3.2.2. I'm seeing the following 2 errors:

ERROR: missing chunk number 0 for toast value 19319495
ERROR: unexpected chunk number 4 (expected 0) for toast value
19319495

It is always the same toast value. The table has 1.8M rows.
I've identified the column and the row:

$ psql -c "\d audit"
Table "public.audit"
Column | Type | Modifiers
--------+-----------------------------+-----------
value | text |
cdate | timestamp without time zone |
key | text |
Indexes:
"idx_audit_cdate" btree (cdate)
"idx_audit_key" btree ("key")

$ psql -c "select key from audit where key = '791015.o9'"
key
-----------
791015.o9
(1 row)

$ psql -c "select cdate from audit where key = '791015.o9'"
cdate
---------------------
2005-04-06 00:00:00
(1 row)

$ psql -c "select value from audit where key = '791015.o9'"
ERROR: missing chunk number 0 for toast value 19319495

It causes all dumps and any access (via SELECT, UPDATE, and
COPY/pg_dump) to audit.value to fail. I've tried to look at the
underlying toast table per some old posts, but no joy.

As usual, this is on a system with a downtime-sensitive customer.

Any ideas?

Ed

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Tom Lane

2005-04-27, 8:24 pm

"Ed L." <pgsql@bluepolka.net> writes:
> This is for PostgreSQL 7.4.6 on hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.00, compiled
> by GCC 3.2.2. I'm seeing the following 2 errors:


> ERROR: missing chunk number 0 for toast value 19319495
> ERROR: unexpected chunk number 4 (expected 0) for toast value
> 19319495


Have you tried REINDEXing the toast table in question?

regards, tom lane

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Ed L.

2005-04-27, 8:24 pm

On Wednesday April 27 2005 3:55 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Have you tried REINDEXing the toast table in question?


Not yet. Any way to repair it without blocking concurrent
access?

Ed

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Tom Lane

2005-04-27, 8:24 pm

"Ed L." <pgsql@bluepolka.net> writes:
> On Wednesday April 27 2005 3:55 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
[color=darkred]
> Not yet. Any way to repair it without blocking concurrent
> access?


Unlikely. But the lock will only affect operations that need to touch
toasted field values.

regards, tom lane

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Ed L.

2005-04-27, 8:24 pm

On Wednesday April 27 2005 4:40 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Ed L." <pgsql@bluepolka.net> writes:
>
> Unlikely. But the lock will only affect operations that need
> to touch toasted field values.


Does this shed any light? pg_toast_6221538 is the relevant toast
table...

$ psql -c "set enable_indexscan=off
; select chunk_seq,
length(chunk_data) from pg_toast.pg_toast_6221538 where chunk_id
= 19319495 order by chunk_seq;"
chunk_seq | length
-----------+--------
(0 rows)

$ psql -c "select chunk_seq, length(chunk_data) from
pg_toast.pg_toast_6221538 where chunk_id = 19319495 order by
chunk_seq;"
chunk_seq | length
-----------+--------
(0 rows)

Ed

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Tom Lane

2005-04-27, 8:24 pm

"Ed L." <pgsql@bluepolka.net> writes:
> Does this shed any light? pg_toast_6221538 is the relevant toast
> table...


> $ psql -c "set enable_indexscan=off
; select chunk_seq,
> length(chunk_data) from pg_toast.pg_toast_6221538 where chunk_id
> = 19319495 order by chunk_seq;"
> chunk_seq | length
> -----------+--------
> (0 rows)


Doesn't look very promising :-(

regards, tom lane

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Ed L.

2005-04-27, 8:24 pm

On Wednesday April 27 2005 6:11 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Ed L." <pgsql@bluepolka.net> writes:
>
> Doesn't look very promising :-(


Sorry...what does that mean? Not promising that reindexing the
toast table would help because there is no data there?

Ed


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