On 9/18/25 05:25, Wim Rouquart wrote:
> Internal
>
>
> Hello,
>
> When doing a pg_dump of one of our databases one of the tables primary
> keys doesn’t get exported. Pg_dump just skips this index, without any
> warning whatsoever (verbose mode was used to doublecheck).
What is the complete table definition?
What is the complete pg_dump command being given?
Is the PK definition in the pg_dump file?
For plain text format can you grep/find it?
For custom format does:
pg_restore -s -t <the_table> <dump_file>
show it?
How is the dump file being restored?
>
> When doing a REINDEX the issue is fixed.
>
> As this seems to me to be some form of index corruption, I tried using
> amcheck (bt_index_check and bt_index_parent_check) to verify for
> corruption but both resulted with no issues (the index is a btree).
>
> I would expect the corruption to show up when using amcheck, am I
> hitting some kind of bug here?
>
> Are there any other ways to doublecheck for corruption (without enabling
> checksum upfront)?
>
> This concerns a PostgreSQL version 15 btw.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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