Thread: problem with pg_statistic_relid_att_index
Hi, I seem to have a problem on one of my databases, When I log into pgsql I see this: ERROR: Invalid page header in block 3 of pg_statistic_relid_att_index Welcome to psql 7.3.4, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. When I try to run any command (eg vacuum) I get this message: dbname=> vacuum full; ERROR: current transaction is aborted, queries ignored until end of transaction block reindex also does not work: dbname=> reindex index pg_statistic_relid_att_index; ERROR: current transaction is aborted, queries ignored until end of transaction block Please can somebody help if you know how to fix this. Thx Tony
"Tony Da Silva" <tony@altonet.co.za> writes: > When I log into pgsql I see this: > ERROR: Invalid page header in block 3 of pg_statistic_relid_att_index I can't think of any reason that a simple connection attempt would be trying to read pg_statistic. Perhaps you have some nontrivial query in your ~/.psqlrc? If so try taking that out. If that doesn't work you might have to resort to setting zero_damaged_pages in postgresql.conf, but that's a pretty dangerous tool --- it might zap pages you weren't expecting it to. Don't keep it on any longer than you absolutely have to. Once you do get into the DB you should be able to just REINDEX pg_statistic to fix the problem. (In 7.3 you might have to use a standalone backend for that, I don't recall for sure.) > Welcome to psql 7.3.4, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. Egad. You do know that 7.3 was up to 7.3.21 before we obsoleted it? If your DB is unrecoverable because of some data-eating bug that was fixed in the past four-plus years, you're not going to get a lot of sympathy. regards, tom lane