(SLONY) cache lookup failed for type

Just been away from blogging for quite a while now as work had been keeping me extremly busy but finally got sometime today to blog about an interesting problem I saw with Slony yesterday…

While at a customer site, I upgraded them to Slony version 1.2.21 and also during the process re-initialized the cluster. The whole process was done without any problem but right after everything was synched across, one of the Sysadmins saw this error in the database server log file:

"cache lookup failed for type 27889"

On doing an INSERT into sl_log_1 table.

Having never seen such a problem before with Slony, it got me a little worried as this was a production database so we had to fix it very quickly.

After doing a little bit of research found out that, by simply restarting the application server which is making connections to the database server will solve the problem. Reason being, the application server had already established a connection to database when we were dropping and re-creating the cluster and that is why it was still looking for old values  that were sitting in the cache. Once we restarted the application server, it was all fine.

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Shoaib Mir
shoaibmir[@]gmail.com