Re: BUG #5077: Corrupted Table - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Andrew Gierth
Subject Re: BUG #5077: Corrupted Table
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Msg-id 874oqt2hkg.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
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In response to BUG #5077: Corrupted Table  ("Bryan McLemore" <kaelten@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: BUG #5077: Corrupted Table  (Kaelten <kaelten@gmail.com>)
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>>>>> "Bryan" == "Bryan McLemore" <kaelten@gmail.com> writes:

 Bryan> "invalid page header in block 900 of relation pg_tblspc/32041/138911/187737"

 Bryan> http://pgsql.privatepaste.com/83JfmQGtS5

Privatepaste urls do expire, so for the record here is the relevant
part of the data in question:

00000000  82 00 00 00 50 01 72 8a  01 00 04 00 00 00 84 03  |....P.r.........|
00000010  02 00 04 20 13 01 d9 00  a8 8e a2 01 d0 8d a2 01  |... ............|
00000020  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000030  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  16 00 01 00 17 00 01 00  |................|
00000040  18 00 01 00 19 00 01 00  1a 00 01 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000050  1b 00 01 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
00000060  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 e8 9e 24 02  |..............$.|
00000070  60 9e 0c 01 d0 9d 1c 01  10 9d 74 01 48 9c 84 01  |`.........t.H...|
00000080  c0 9b 0c 01 e8 9a a2 01  30 9a 6c 01 50 99 bc 01  |........0.l.P...|
00000090  1c 00 01 00 1d 00 01 00  1e 00 01 00 28 00 01 00  |............(...|
000000a0  29 00 01 00 2a 00 01 00  2b 00 01 00 2c 00 01 00  |)...*...+...,...|
000000b0  2d 00 01 00 30 98 32 02  68 97 8c 01 80 96 cc 01  |-...0.2.h.......|
000000c0  d8 95 44 01 98 94 74 02  c0 93 a8 01 a8 92 24 02  |..D...t.......$.|
000000d0  20 92 0c 01 90 91 1c 01  d0 90 74 01 08 90 84 01  | .........t.....|
000000e0  80 8f 0c 01 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
000000f0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|

The data appears intact other than invalid values for pd_lower and pd_special
(and possibly pd_upper, wasn't sure about that one).

 Bryan> The reason they asked me to report this is that it appears
 Bryan> this occured when a disk filled up while pg_dump was running.

I have no idea whether the disk full was the cause of this, but there
was no evidence in the page data of a hardware failure, so it could do
with investigation. (I don't know of any external cause that could damage
pd_lower while leaving the rest of the page intact.)

I did ask Bryan on IRC to make a copy of his data directory before doing
the fix.

--
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)

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