Frank van Vugt <ftm.van.vugt@xxxxxxx> writes: > mmm, indeed it seems that some things are our of sync here > ... > This confirms that these 60 functions do not have a 'o' (owner) record in > pg_shdepend, it therefor matches what you seemed to expect: no records in > pg_shdepend, so "reassign owned" does not do anything. > Our obvious questions now are: > - how did we get into this > and > - how do we get out I wonder whether the pg_shdepend data is actually wrong, or just the indexes on it are at fault. Did you try forcing that query to be done with a seqscan, or see if reindexing pg_shdepend fixes things up? The reason I'm wondering is that I've just found a failure mechanism that could account for significant lossage of index entries for a system catalog: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-04/msg01070.php To explain your problem that way would require assuming that somebody was REINDEX'ing pg_shdepend at approximately the same time that somebody else was rolling back DDL that had modified these same pg_shdepend entries --- which in this case would probably mean a failed REASSIGN OWNED for this same user ID. Have you got background tasks that try to REINDEX everything in sight? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general