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Index corruption on restore

Troubleshooting


Problem

You notice Index corruption on restoring data using onload.

Symptom

oncheck -cI will show corruption similar to what is specified below:

      Validating indexes for testdb:informix.tab1...
       Index  698_3576
         Index  fragment partition ta_dbs in DBspace ta_dbs
      WARNING: No data row exists for btree item.
      Btree item contains fragid 0x800375 rowid 0x1fa01, key value:
      Key: 5625:
      It's possible this is a transient issue. Please run oncheck -cIx on this index.
      ERROR:No btree item exists for data row.
      Fragid 0x800375 Rowid 0x231701 contains key value:
      Key: 5625:
      ISAM error:  illegal key descriptor (too many parts or too long).
       Index esec_exchg_tick_ix
         Index  fragment partition ta_dbs in DBspace ta_dbs

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Modified date:
03 June 2021

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