Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> writes:
> Then i did
> # CREATE TABLE mail_entity2 AS SELECT * FROM mail_entity;
> which went fine
> but, for some crazy reason, pg_dump on mail_entity2 also results to an error:
> srv:~> pg_dump -t mail_entity2 > /dev/null
> pg_dump: SQL command failed
> pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: compressed data is corrupt
The create/select would not have bothered to decompress any
inline-compressed datums, so the corrupted data went right over to the
new table. I think you'll have to engage in another round of
divide-and-conquer to locate the specific row or rows with a corrupted
value.
regards, tom lane
