What does “ERROR: failed to find parent tuple for heap-only tuple at (1192248,5) in table ”fruits“” mean?

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  •  02-11-2019
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After being bitten by the bug mentioned in the release notes of 9.3.4, I have realized that a very small part of my data is corrupt, after doing a failover. The bug showed it self as duplicate rows, with the same primary key. Now I can easily afford to delete some data from my database if that’s what it takes to fix my problem, so I just deleted those duplicates whole hug. After doing this, I decided to write a script that drops/recreates all constraints (Pkeys and Fkeys), in order to validate that no more of my data is corrupt. This worked well, until I bumped into the following error, while creating one of the foreign keys:

ERROR:  failed to find parent tuple for heap-only tuple at (1192248,5) in table "fruits"
CONTEXT:  SQL statement "ALTER TABLE "pm"."fruits" ADD CONSTRAINT "fruits_pkey" PRIMARY KEY (id)"

What is it, and how do I solve it?

No correct solution

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