You should probably be asking yourself why you have corruption in your
database. I suspect whatever hardware that database is on is having
problems that need to be addressed.
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 05:42:16PM -0700, Kevin Seghetti wrote:
> I am using postgres 7.4.5, and have a corrupt pg_statistic.
> Many commands cause the following error:
> ERROR: invalid page header in block 10 of relation "pg_statistic"
>
> I want to preserve my data if at all possible, I figured I would just
> dump the database and reload it. I tried
> pg_dump, but it gives me:
> pg_dump: query to obtain list of data types failed: ERROR: invalid page header in block 11 of relation
"pg_statistic"
> even if I just try to dump a single table.
>
> I tried postgres in single-user mode:
> delete from pg_statistic
> gives me the same error
> drop table pg_statistic
> gives me
> ERROR: permission denied: "pg_statistic" is a system catalog
>
> Is there any way to nuke pg_statistic (since its contents can be
> recalculated anyway?)
>
> Thanks,
>
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