Merlin Moncure wrote: > My previous employer contacted me today. Apparently they are having > an increasing frequency of occurances where they disocover violations > of the primary key constraint not being caught by the database. This > system is an ISAM emulation system, and it relies heavily on the > database throwing unique constraint violations to approximately > provide a cobol rewrite statement. > > These errors are never caught when they occur. One way they are > caught is during a dump/reload, the record fails to reinsert. > > I brought this up around a year ago, and the issue was never > successfully resolved. These are windows systems running PostgreSQL > 8.0.x. > > any thoughts? Do they vacuum enough? I have seen problems with PostgreSQL (albeit not since 7.3) where a unique constraint would not enforce because of index bloat. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > merlin > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate