> On 26/01/2023 12:52 CET Massimo Ortensi <mortensi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > we had OS upgrades, but with the same locale. Which OS? Locale may still be the same but collation information may have changed, resulting in a different sort order. https://postgresql.verite.pro/blog/2018/08/27/glibc-upgrade.html Has libc version changed with the OS upgrades? > Is there any chance to avoid rebuilding of all indexes/constraints by checking > the correctness of indexes ? Extension amcheck (functions bt_index_check and bt_index_parent_check) can verify that btree entries for text are in lexical order. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/amcheck.html > Il 26/01/2023 11:56, Erik Wienhold ha scritto: > > > On 26/01/2023 11:11 CET Massimo Ortensi <mortensi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I had troubles with some unique constraints recently. > > > > They simply didn't work, not seeing some records (select found only 47 > > records with specific values instead of 65, insert could create > > duplicate records). > > > > The constraint were on multiple columns. Drop constraint and create > > constraint fixed the problem. > > > > This happened on two servers : > > > > - a version 10 server, where an abnormal poweroff happened 6 months > > ago, found 3 tables with the problem throughout last 6 months. > > > > - a test server, found the problem on 1 table after upgrading version 10 > > to 14 > > > > Anythng similar happened to anybody ? > > How can I find out if similar problems are present ? constraint and > > index looked ok and were used > > > Are the indexes on string types? Changes to the locale data is one cause: > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/328626.1647362495@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Erik