Re: trying to repair a bad header block - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From gherzig@fmed.uba.ar
Subject Re: trying to repair a bad header block
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In response to Re: trying to repair a bad header block  ("Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> "Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> writes:
>>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>>> If you can tolerate losing the data on that page, just zero out the
>>>> entire 8K page.  dd from /dev/zero is the usual tool.
>>
>>> Would zero_damaged_pages work here?  I know it's a shotgun to kill a
>>> flea, but it's also easier and safer for a lot of folks than dding a
>>> page in their table.
>>
>> It would work, but if you have any *other* damaged pages you might
>> lose more than you were expecting ...
>
> Agreed.  OTOH, on slip of the fingers for a newbie with dd and the
> whole table is gone.  I guess it's always a trade off.
>
>
Thanks Tom and Scott! I just use dd for simply creating big files (oh, and
once to screw up a entire disk :)

Im going to man it in order to zero out that page(s).

Wish me lucks, dudes.
Thanks!

Gerardo




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