# "EXCEPTION: psql failed: DETAIL: Key (post\_id)=(36946) is duplicated."

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**Created:** [June 18, 2022, 5:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/exception-psql-failed-detail-key-post-id-36946-is-duplicated/230356 "2022-06-18T05:24:27Z")\
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It sounds like you have a corrupt index. What version of postgres is this?

There are a few topics about this. You can try to reindex that table on the running instance and then delete or fix the duplicate IDs.

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