Subject Re: Corrupted primary key
Author Alec Swan
Hello,

I haven't received any answers to my question below in almost a week.
Not sure if my messages don't get posted on the list or just not being
answered.

What commercial support options are available? Any contact information
will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Alec

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Alec Swan <alecswan@...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We just ran into a problem (in production) where a corrupted primary key
> caused the query to return incorrect results. We rebuilt statistics on all
> indexes in the database, but that didn't fix the problem. We had to drop and
> re-create the primary key to fix the problem.
>
> Our maintenance plans "set statistics" as Ann suggested in this thread
> (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/106971).
> However, this new problem requires us to drop and recreate primary keys.
>
> My understanding is that the original problem reported in
> (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/106971)  was
> caused by "bad memory chip" or maybe some other hardware failure. Has there
> been any work done in the recent Firebird releases to protect or recover
> from this kind of problems? If not, how can we reduce the likelihood of
> these problems occurring in the future, e.g. flush to disk more often?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alec
>