Thread: Data corruption (8.2.5 Windows XP)

After a crash, some data disappeared in some tables.
Furthermore, there is a table with an INTEGER as primary key. One of its
row is corrupted.
All global requests (no WHERE clause) succeed, but each request with a
WHERE clause on the primary acts like this values does not exist.

Example :

SELECT * FROM t_table t;  =>
id    name        ...
1     myname    ...


SELECT * FROM t_table t WHERE t.id=1;  => no result

Is there a reason for this?
Is there a way to "repair" the database?

Thanks,

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Régis Bouméra
STERIA
Mail : regis.boumera@steria.com
Tel   : 05 59 84 95 77


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On Tuesday 30 June 2009, regis.boumera@steria.com wrote:
> SELECT * FROM t_table t WHERE t.id=1;  => no result
>
> Is there a reason for this?
> Is there a way to "repair" the database?
>

reindex

regis.boumera@steria.com wrote:
> Is there a reason for this?
> Is there a way to "repair" the database?
>
>
I guess your primary key index got damaged. You could try to REINDEX the
table or DROP and recreate the index manually. Perhaps you should do a
backup of your data directory before reindexing your table, so someone
might be able to find out what happend to your database in the first place.

Marc