Re: vacuumdb: vacuuming of database "xy" failed: PANIC: corrupted item pointer: 19227 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thom Brown
Subject Re: vacuumdb: vacuuming of database "xy" failed: PANIC: corrupted item pointer: 19227
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Msg-id bddc86150911180440n71626014j6c3af4f3784240f9@mail.gmail.com
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In response to vacuumdb: vacuuming of database "xy" failed: PANIC: corrupted item pointer: 19227  (Tech 2010 <tch072@gmail.com>)
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2009/11/18 Tech 2010 <tch072@gmail.com>:
> Hello!
>
> How do I location of this pointer and how do I zero it so I can access
> the rest of the data?
>
> "zero_damaged_pages = true" did not help in this case, because I
> always get same numbers being zeroed. This is with 8.4.0 and 8.4.1.
>
> Thanks.
>

You probably just need to reindex a table.  Try vacuuming each table
individually until you get this error, or just check the vacuum log
output to identify it, then just run a REINDEX on it.

Regards

Thom

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