On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:02:48PM -0800, Lonni Friedman wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. Can pgfsck run on a live database, or does it
> need to be shutdown first?
While you could in theory run it on a live database I wouldn't recommend it
given it can't get a consitant snapshot. But if you're just scanning for
problems it should be fine. It's a read-only program, it never actually
writes to the postgres files.
> NOTICE: Index pg_toast_302323_idx: NUMBER OF INDEX' TUPLES (86316) IS
> NOT THE SAME AS HEAP' (86292).
> Recreate the index.
>
> So, i took down the DB, started it in standalone, and ran:
> reindex INDEX pg_toast_302323_idx
>
> but according to the REINDEX dox, i should see a 'REINDEX' if all is
> well, and i never do, i'm just dumped back to another backend> prompt.
> Any ideas?
No idea here sorry...
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