Jira application does not start up - missing chunk number 0 for toast value 3995689 in pg_toast
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Summary
When a user tries to start the Jira application, it does not start up and throws an error.
Environment
- Jira Software v8.x and above.
Diagnosis
On reviewing the Atlassian-jira.log, "ERROR: missing chunk number 0 for toast value 3995689 in pg_toast_2619 " observed:
Caused by: org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericDataSourceException: SQL Exception while executing the following:SELECT ID, JOB_ID, JOB_RUNNER_KEY, SCHED_TYPE, INTERVAL_MILLIS, FIRST_RUN, CRON_EXPRESSION, TIME_ZONE, NEXT_RUN, VERSION, PARAMETERS FROM public.clusteredjob WHERE JOB_ID=? *(ERROR: missing chunk number 0 for toast value 3995689 in pg_toast_2619) * at org.ofbiz.core.entity.jdbc.SQLProcessor.executeQuery(SQLProcessor.java:533) at org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericDAO.createEntityListIterator(GenericDAO.java:881) ... 33 more Caused by: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: missing chunk number 0 for toast value 3995689 in pg_toast_2619 at org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.receiveErrorResponse(QueryExecutorImpl.java:2553) at org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.processResults(QueryExecutorImpl.java:2285) at org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.execute(QueryExecutorImpl.java:323) at org.postgresql.jdbc.PgStatement.executeInternal(PgStatement.java:473) ... 38 more 2022-02-28 11:53:28,392+0530 JIRA-Bootstrap ERROR [c.a.jira.health.HealthChecks] We couldn't start JIRA
Cause
- Corrupted index on tables/data corruption in TOAST tables. corruption in your TOAST tables.
Solution
The error does seem to indicate that something is not right on the database side. please refer to: