Re: How am I supposed to fix this? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Larry Rosenman
Subject Re: How am I supposed to fix this?
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Msg-id c4456f947e4604ff71e3598dc7e9a769@lerctr.org
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In response to Re: How am I supposed to fix this?  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>)
List pgsql-hackers
On 08/06/2019 1:16 pm, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 11:11 AM Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> wrote:
>> As a followup, btcheck found another index that had issues, and a 
>> toast
>> table was missing a chunk.
>> 
>> I have ALL the data I used to create this table still around so I just
>> dropped it and am reloading the data.
> 
> It sounds like there is a generic storage issue at play here. Often
> TOAST data is the apparent first thing that gets corrupted, because
> that's only because the inconsistencies are relatively obvious.
> 
> I suggest that you rerun amcheck using the same query, though this
> time specify "heapallindexed=true" to bt_check_index(). Increase
> maintenance_work_mem if it's set to a low value first (ideally you can
> crank it up to 600MB). This type of verification will take a lot
> longer, but will find more subtle inconsistencies that could easily be
> missed.
> 
> Please let us know how this goes. I am always keen to hear about how
> much the tooling helps in the real world.

I've already dropped and re-created the table involved (a metric crapton
of DNS queries). I know why and how this happened as well.  I had to
fully restore my system, and bacula didn't catch all the data etc since 
it
was being modified, and I didn't do the smart thing then and restore 
from a pg_dump.


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