[postgis-devel] CLUSTER in 8.3 on GIST indexes break

[Robert W. Burgholzer]

FWIW,
I have experienced some oddities in performing SELECT statements after
restarting on an 8.2 system, whereby I occasionally would get a ton of
duplicate records when I would do a select statement (my assumption is that
they are deleted tuples being returned).  If I executed the same select
statement again, I would get the correct number of records.

Thanks for exploring this issue ladies and gents.

r.b.


Quoting Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk>:

> Gregory Stark wrote:
>
> > Uhm. That rather sucks. I was able to reproduce it too.
> >
> > It seems to happen after I pause for a bit, and not when I run the script
> in
> > fast succession.
>
> Thanks for the verification Greg. I'm wondering if the GiST part is a
> red herring, and in fact it is related to some bizarre interaction
> between CLUSTER/VACUUM/autovacuum?
>
>
> ATB,
>
> Mark.
>
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