Re: BUG #8577: pg_dump custom format exported dump can't be imported again

Hi Andres,

oh, it returns a row!

lyriks=> SET enable_indexscan = false;
SET
lyriks=> SET enable_bitmapscan = false;
SET
lyriks=> SET constraint_exclusion = false;
SET
lyriks=> EXPLAIN SELECT ctid, * FROM lytartist WHERE nartistnr IS NULL;
                         QUERY PLAN
-------------------------------------------------------------
 Seq Scan on lytartist  (cost=0.00..1274.20 rows=1 width=68)
   Filter: (nartistnr IS NULL)
(2 rows)

lyriks=> SELECT ctid, * FROM lytartist WHERE nartistnr IS NULL;
   ctid   | nartistnr | sartist | nartistnralias | nstatusnr | ntypenr
| surl | nlabelnr | nusernr | dnow | ssoundex | surlname

----------+-----------+---------+----------------+-----------+---------+------+----------+---------+------+----------+----------
 (284,60) |           |         |                |           |
|      |          |         |      |          |
(1 row)

How do I delete it from there there?
lyriks=> DELETE FROM lytartist where ctid = (284,60);
ERROR:  operator does not exist: tid = record
LINE 1: DELETE FROM lytartist where ctid = (284,60);
                                         ^
HINT:  No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You
might need to add explicit type casts.

And how can I prevent inserts like these in the future?

Thanks!

Dominik


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 2013-11-05 20:53:32 +0000, dominik@dominikdorn.com wrote:
>> For some reason, pg_dump inserts an entry with null values into the dump
>> (even for the primary key).
>
>> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:
>> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 3370; 0 61665 TABLE DATA
>> lytartist lyriks
>> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] COPY failed for table "lytartist": ERROR:  null
>> value in column "nartistnr" violates not-null constraint
>> CONTEXT:  COPY lytartist, line 21841: "\N     \N      \N      \N      \N      \N      \N      \N      \N      \N
\N" 
>> pg_restore: [archiver] worker process failed: exit code 1
>
> Hm. That might be caused by on-disk corruption...
>
>> Of course, querying for the entry with a NULL PK results in no results on
>> the source machine.
>
> Well, that will probably have used the the index, try it by doing
> something like:
> SET enable_indexscan = false;
> SET enable_bitmapscan = false;
> SET constraint_exclusion = false;
> EXPLAIN SELECT ctid, * FROM lytartist WHERE nartistnr IS NULL;
> SELECT ctid, * FROM lytartist WHERE nartistnr IS NULL;
>
> The explain should show a sequential scan, right? Does it now return a row?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Andres Freund



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