Re: Something smells in this schema...

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 01:02:24PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Adam Haberlach <adam@newsnipple.com> writes:
> >     I had postgres start blocking all it's UPDATEs on a production
> > database today, when an engineer added the following two tables,
> > among other things.  We've had to restore from backup, and the
> > interesting thing is that when we re-add these tables, things
> > break again.
> 
> "blocking"?  Please define symptoms more precisely.
The postgres process stalls.  According to ps, it's it is attempting
an UPDATE.  I think it times out eventually (I was in disaster-recovery
mode this morning, and not always waiting around for these things.  :)

> >     My first thought was the index on the boolean field in the time_cards,
> > which I could have sworn has caused me problems before.  Anyone else see
> > anything wrong?
> 
> Pre-7.1 versions do have problems with large numbers of equal keys in
> a btree index, which is more or less the definition of an index on
> boolean.  I'm dubious that such an index is of any value anyway ...
Ok--I'll check this.  Thanks for the incredibly fast response--my
favorite thing about PostgreSQL is the fact that I can post to a mailing
list and get clued answers from real developers, usually within hours
if not minutes.

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