Re: Emergency: ERROR: _mdfd_getrelnfd: cannot open relation TABLE_NAME: Input/output error - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Christopher Smith
Subject Re: Emergency: ERROR: _mdfd_getrelnfd: cannot open relation TABLE_NAME: Input/output error
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Msg-id 20050221223019.31243.qmail@web14124.mail.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: Emergency: ERROR: _mdfd_getrelnfd: cannot open relation TABLE_NAME: Input/output error  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom,

you are exactly CORRECT.  One scsi down... crap!
 
Thanks for the support and quick response!

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Christopher Smith writes:
> ERROR: _mdfd_getrelnfd: cannot open relation TABLE_NAME: Input/output error

This is a hardware failure: your disk drive has dropped some sectors.
I don't think you can do anything about it except go back to your last
backup :-(

Oh, and buy a new disk ASAP, before you lose any more data ...

regards, tom lane


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