Re: [GENERAL] Invalid Page Header Error

2013-10-16 Thread Albe Laurenz
Carlo Curatolo wrote: > Yes I ran pg_dumpall, create a new cluster and import. Ok, cool. > Everything seems fine now. > > How can I prevent that ? Prevent data corruption? Have good hardware, run the latest PostgreSQL fixes... Most of all, have a good backup so that you can recover. Yours, L

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid Page Header Error

2013-10-16 Thread Carlo Curatolo
Yes I ran pg_dumpall, create a new cluster and import. Everything seems fine now. How can I prevent that ? -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Invalid-Page-Header-Error-tp1925403p5774728.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabbl

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid Page Header Error

2013-10-16 Thread Albe Laurenz
Carlo Curatolo wrote: > SELECT oid, relname, relkind FROM pg_class WHERE relfilenode = 599662; --> > returns nothing. Maybe the wrong database? Try to find out which object this file belongs to (maybe with oid2name). > No crash occurs, I have tested the hardware (memory, harddisks, RAID5, > stabi

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid Page Header Error

2013-10-16 Thread Carlo Curatolo
Thanks for the help. SELECT oid, relname, relkind FROM pg_class WHERE relfilenode = 599662; --> returns nothing. No crash occurs, I have tested the hardware (memory, harddisks, RAID5, stability test...) I have made a little program to read all the LargeObject of my tables, they are all readable.

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid Page Header Error

2013-10-16 Thread Albe Laurenz
Carlo Curatolo wrote: > When I lauch a vacuumdb, I have an error : ERREUR: en-tête de page invalide > dans le bloc 39639 de la relation base/16384/599662 > > With a > SELECT * FROM pg_catalog.pg_largeobject > > Result is > ERREUR: en-tête de page invalide dans le bloc 39639 de la relation > bas

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid Page Header Error

2013-10-15 Thread Carlo Curatolo
I have quite the same problem. When I lauch a vacuumdb, I have an error : ERREUR: en-tête de page invalide dans le bloc 39639 de la relation base/16384/599662 With a SELECT * FROM pg_catalog.pg_largeobject Result is ERREUR: en-tête de page invalide dans le bloc 39639 de la relation base/163

[GENERAL] invalid page header in block...

2012-10-02 Thread Royce Ausburn
Hi all, A customer's database has started whining about a busted block: postgresql-8.4-main.log:2012-10-02 18:51:33 EST ERROR: invalid page header in block 8429809 of relation base/807305056/950827614 postgresql-8.4-main.log:2012-10-02 18:56:52 EST ERROR: invalid page header in block 8429809

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid Page Header Error

2009-11-01 Thread Denis BUCHER
Hello Richard, Just to keep you informed... Richard Huxton a écrit : >> We had a server crash and when restarting postgres it works, except some >> "Invalid Page Header Error" : > > Data corrupted on disk. Either: > 1. You have bad hardware > 2. You have disks lying about fsync > 3. You have fsy

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid Page Header Error

2009-10-27 Thread Richard Huxton
Denis BUCHER wrote: > Hello, > > We had a server crash and when restarting postgres it works, except some > "Invalid Page Header Error" : Data corrupted on disk. Either: 1. You have bad hardware 2. You have disks lying about fsync 3. You have fsync turned off. > I already try VACUUM / FULL / ANA

[GENERAL] Invalid Page Header Error

2009-10-27 Thread Denis BUCHER
Hello, We had a server crash and when restarting postgres it works, except some "Invalid Page Header Error" : I already try VACUUM / FULL / ANALYSE but same error Even when doing a pg_dumpall, we have this problem. $ pg_dumpall >/dev/null pg_dump: ERREUR: en-tête de page invalide dans le bloc

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header

2007-08-06 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hi, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: I've done that (zeroing out the pg_toast table page) and hope > the running pg_dump goes through fine. Unfortunately, pg_dump didn't go through. I already did some REINDEXing and VACUUMing. Vacuum fixed something (sorry, don't I recall the message), but SELECTi

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header

2007-08-03 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hi, Tom Lane wrote: Hm, looks suspiciously ASCII-like. If you examine the page as text, is it recognizable? Doh! Yup, is recognizable. It looks like some PHP serialized output: png%";i:84;s:24:"%InfoToolIconActive.png%";i:85;s:29:"%InfoToolIconHighlighted.png%";i:86;s:26:"%InfoToolIconInact

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header

2007-08-03 Thread Tom Lane
Markus Schiltknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Block 58591 >> - >> Block Offset: 0x1c9be000 Offsets: Lower12858 (0x323a) >> Block: Size 28160 Version 73Upper14900 (0x3a34) >> LSN: logid 627535472 recof

[GENERAL] invalid page header

2007-08-03 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hi, I'm in the unfortunate position of having "invalid page header(s) in block 58591 of relation "pg_toast_302599". I'm well aware that the hardware in question isn't the most reliable one. None the less, I'd like to restore as much of the data as possible. A pg_filedump analysis of the file

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid page header

2007-07-03 Thread Poul Møller Hansen
and re-index on the affected table. Sorry, was to fast Poul ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid page header

2007-07-03 Thread Poul Møller Hansen
I had a similar problem and overcame it by temporarily setting zero_damaged_pages, then doing a full vacuum and re-index on the affected table. Thanks, I suppose I need to reindex the table afterwards, or they can point to non existent data ? Poul ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid page header

2007-07-02 Thread Michael Harris (BR/EPA)
Hi, I had a similar problem and overcame it by temporarily setting zero_damaged_pages, then doing a full vacuum and re-index on the affected table. The rows contained in the corrupted page were lost but the rest of the table was OK after this. Regards // Mike -Original Message- From:

[GENERAL] Invalid page header

2007-07-02 Thread Poul Møller Hansen
During some time I have had more problems with invalid data in different parts of a PostgreSQL database. Until now it has been pointers to non present clog files and an index file, but now it's in a data file. I'm getting this error when doing a backup: invalid page header in block 5377 of rel

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header in pg_statistic

2007-03-07 Thread Tom Lane
"Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The truncate showed no errors. The vacuum analyze showed the > same error in block 110 of the pg_statistic table. Really!? Hm, I wonder if you have a reproducible problem. Would it be possible for you to send me the physical pg_statistic file (off-list)? I

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header in pg_statistic

2007-03-07 Thread Ed L.
On Wednesday February 7 2007 9:01 am, Tom Lane wrote: > "Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How do I fix this 7.4.6 issue short of initdb? > > invalid page header in block 110 of relation "pg_statistic" > > I looked at the block via pg_filedump (included below), and > > it does not appear t

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header in pg_statistic

2007-02-07 Thread Ed L.
On Wednesday February 7 2007 9:01 am, Tom Lane wrote: > "Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How do I fix this 7.4.6 issue short of initdb? > > invalid page header in block 110 of relation "pg_statistic" > > I looked at the block via pg_filedump (included below), and > > it does not appear t

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header in pg_statistic

2007-02-07 Thread Tom Lane
"Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I fix this 7.4.6 issue short of initdb? > invalid page header in block 110 of relation "pg_statistic" > I looked at the block via pg_filedump (included below), and it > does not appear to me to be corrupted, so not sure what I would > zero out, i

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header in pg_statistic

2007-02-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:00:20AM -0700, Ed L. wrote: > How do I fix this 7.4.6 issue short of initdb? > > invalid page header in block 110 of relation "pg_statistic" Take a copy of the file, then you should be able to truncate it. There's also the zero_damaged_pages option, though I don't

[GENERAL] invalid page header in pg_statistic

2007-02-07 Thread Ed L.
How do I fix this 7.4.6 issue short of initdb? invalid page header in block 110 of relation "pg_statistic" I looked at the block via pg_filedump (included below), and it does not appear to me to be corrupted, so not sure what I would zero out, if anything. TIA. Ed ***

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header

2006-04-24 Thread Jo De Haes
Just a little followup on this problem. We've moved the database to another server where it ran without problems. HP just released new raid controller drivers for Suse and a firmware update for the controller itself. Until now the problem hasn't occurred anymore. Thanks! Jo. Chris Travers w

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header

2006-03-29 Thread Chris Travers
Jo De Haes wrote: OK. The saga continues, everything is a little bit more clear, but at the same time a lot more confusing. Today i wanted to reproduce the problem again. And guess what? A vacuum of the database went thru without any problems. I dump the block i was having problems with y

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header

2006-03-29 Thread Jo De Haes
Ok, So we reran everything and got the same error message again, now i'm able to reproduce it. 2006-03-28 12:05:18.638 CESTERROR: XX001: invalid page header in block 39248 of relation "dunn_main" 2006-03-28 12:05:18.638 CESTLOCATION: ReadBuffer, bufmgr.c:257 2006-03-28 12:05:18.638 CESTSTAT

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header

2006-03-29 Thread Jo De Haes
OK. The saga continues, everything is a little bit more clear, but at the same time a lot more confusing. Today i wanted to reproduce the problem again. And guess what? A vacuum of the database went thru without any problems. I dump the block i was having problems with yesterday. It doesn'

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header

2006-03-27 Thread Tom Lane
Jo De Haes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I asked the developper to delete all imported data again an restart the > import. This import crashed again with the same error but this time on > another block. > 2006-03-27 00:15:25.458 CESTERROR: XX001: invalid page header in block > 48068 of relati

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header

2006-03-27 Thread Jo De Haes
Tom Lane wrote: "Qingqing Zhou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: "Jo De Haes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote CETERROR: XX001: invalid page header in block 22182 of relation "dunn_main" I suppose there is no system error happens during the period (like lost power). Can you attach the gdb at "b bu

[GENERAL] invalid page header

2006-03-22 Thread Jo De Haes
Hi All, We are evaluating Postgresql as a db platform for one of our future applications. Some tables in the database will contain more than 10.000.000 records, which as i understand it, should be no problem with postgresql. We have been trying to find the most effective/fastest way to mani

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header

2006-03-22 Thread Tom Lane
"Qingqing Zhou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Jo De Haes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> CETERROR: XX001: invalid page header in block 22182 of relation > "dunn_main" > I suppose there is no system error happens during the period (like lost > power). Can you attach the gdb at "b bufmgr.c:257" and

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header

2006-03-21 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Jo De Haes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > CETERROR: XX001: invalid page header in block 22182 of relation "dunn_main" > > My main question is: why is this occuring? > I suppose there is no system error happens during the period (like lost power). Can you attach the gdb at "b bufmgr.c:257" and p

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-28 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:59:28PM -0500, Qingqing Zhou wrote: > > "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > > At this point I think there's no question that your filesystem is > > dropping blocks :-(. > > It is very interesting to follow this thread. But at this point, can you > explain more w

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-28 Thread Adam Witney
On 26/11/05 4:48 pm, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I deleted the two datasets in mba_data_base that were affected by the empty >> pages, I also deleted the relevant two rows in measured_bioassay_base... But >> maybe it didn't do the right thing

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-26 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I deleted the two datasets in mba_data_base that were affected by the empty > pages, I also deleted the relevant two rows in measured_bioassay_base... But > maybe it didn't do the right thing with the toast table for these two rows? Evidently the missing d

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-26 Thread Adam Witney
On 26/11/05 4:14 pm, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> pg_dump: ERROR: unexpected chunk number 5153 (expected 21) for toast value >> 245334402 > >> measured_bioassay_base is always inserted at the same time as mba_data_base >> (the table where I h

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-26 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > pg_dump: ERROR: unexpected chunk number 5153 (expected 21) for toast value > 245334402 > measured_bioassay_base is always inserted at the same time as mba_data_base > (the table where I had the problem before) and it has a text field which is > very large

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621

2005-11-26 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
Could it be faulty hardware? Run memtest86? Test your drives? At 10:49 AM 11/26/2005 +, Adam Witney wrote: Any ideas what is going on here? Thanks again for any help Adam ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-26 Thread Adam Witney
On 24/11/05 5:27 pm, "Adam Witney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24/11/05 5:28 pm, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Does this help identifying what went wrong? >> >> At this point I think there's no question that your filesystem is >> dropp

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-24 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > At this point I think there's no question that your filesystem is > dropping blocks :-(. It is very interesting to follow this thread. But at this point, can you explain more why "there is no question" is file system's fault? Thanks, Qingqing ---

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-24 Thread Adam Witney
On 24/11/05 5:28 pm, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Does this help identifying what went wrong? > > At this point I think there's no question that your filesystem is > dropping blocks :-(. Might want to check for available kernel updates, > or

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-24 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does this help identifying what went wrong? At this point I think there's no question that your filesystem is dropping blocks :-(. Might want to check for available kernel updates, or contemplate changing to a different filesystem.

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-24 Thread Adam Witney
On 24/11/05 4:42 pm, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On 24/11/05 4:19 pm, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> The question is, can you tell whether any data is actually missing? > >> Well each of these datasets are about 20,000 rows each...

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-24 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 24/11/05 4:19 pm, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The question is, can you tell whether any data is actually missing? > Well each of these datasets are about 20,000 rows each... So I can tell > which one is in (640792,12) and in (640799,1), the

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-24 Thread Adam Witney
On 24/11/05 4:19 pm, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If you mean by that, this: > >> select * from mba_data_base where ctid = '(640792,12)'; >> select * from mba_data_base where ctid = '(640799,1)'; > >> Then the data looks normal... Of course e

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-24 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you mean by that, this: > select * from mba_data_base where ctid = '(640792,12)'; > select * from mba_data_base where ctid = '(640799,1)'; > Then the data looks normal... Of course everything in between that is now > blank. The question is, can you te

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-24 Thread Adam Witney
On 24/11/05 3:52 pm, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> bugasbase2=# vacuum; >> WARNING: relation "mba_data_base" page 597621 is uninitialized --- fixing > > This is the expected result of what you did. > >> WARNING: relation "mba_data_base" page

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-24 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > bugasbase2=# vacuum; > WARNING: relation "mba_data_base" page 597621 is uninitialized --- fixing This is the expected result of what you did. > WARNING: relation "mba_data_base" page 640793 is uninitialized --- fixing > WARNING: relation "mba_data_base

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-24 Thread Adam Witney
On 24/11/05 2:48 pm, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Just wanted to clarify, should this not be >> dd bs=8k seek=7 count=1 conv=notrunc if=/dev/zero of=134401991.4 > > Looks reasonable. > > regards, tom lane Excellent thanks. I have run it

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-24 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just wanted to clarify, should this not be > dd bs=8k seek=7 count=1 conv=notrunc if=/dev/zero of=134401991.4 Looks reasonable. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4:

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-24 Thread Adam Witney
On 23/11/05 10:20 pm, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Whats the best way to zero the bad block? > > Probably dd from /dev/zero, along the lines of > > dd bs=8k seek=597621 count=1 conv=notrunc if=/dev/zero of=relation > > (check this before you

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-23 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Whats the best way to zero the bad block? Probably dd from /dev/zero, along the lines of dd bs=8k seek=597621 count=1 conv=notrunc if=/dev/zero of=relation (check this before you apply it ;-)). You probably should stop the postmaster while doing

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-23 Thread Adam Witney
On 23/11/05 9:55 pm, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> This table is only ever COPY'd to from data files, no updates or deletes, if >> I could find out which data file this bit comes from I could just reupload >> that file... Is it possible to tell

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-23 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This table is only ever COPY'd to from data files, no updates or deletes, if > I could find out which data file this bit comes from I could just reupload > that file... Is it possible to tell what the data actually is from the data > I sent? You might try

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-23 Thread Adam Witney
On 23/11/05 9:36 pm, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Thanks for the help Here is the output: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/opt$ dd bs=8k skip=7 count=1 if=134401991.4 | od -x >> 000 >> * >> 001 1d

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-23 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the help Here is the output: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/opt$ dd bs=8k skip=7 count=1 if=134401991.4 | od -x > 000 > * > 001 1d9e 201c 0fa0 0010 000b > 0010020 0ca6 19fb 1797 0ab4 0

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..."error

2005-11-23 Thread Adam Witney
On 23/11/05 8:55 pm, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> bugasbase2=# SELECT count(*) from mba_data_base; >> ERROR: invalid page header in block 597621 of relation "mba_data_base" > > Sounds like a data corruption problem :-(. Do you want to pull o

Re: [GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..." error

2005-11-23 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > bugasbase2=# SELECT count(*) from mba_data_base; > ERROR: invalid page header in block 597621 of relation "mba_data_base" Sounds like a data corruption problem :-(. Do you want to pull out that page and see what's in it? Something like dd bs=8k

[GENERAL] "invalid page header in block 597621 of relation..." error

2005-11-23 Thread Adam Witney
Hi, I just had this error in my database: bugasbase2=# SELECT count(*) from mba_data_base; ERROR: invalid page header in block 597621 of relation "mba_data_base" Any ideas whats going on? Am a bit worried as this is my production database. Thanks for any assistance Adam -- This message ha

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid page header in pg_class

2005-08-30 Thread gokulnathbabu manoharan
Hi Tom, Enabling the zero_damaged_pages solved the problem. I am in the process of dumping & restoring. Thanks for the help. Gokul. --- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gokulnathbabu manoharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > > In my sample databases the relfilenode for > pg_class > > was 1

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid page header in pg_class

2005-08-30 Thread Tom Lane
gokulnathbabu manoharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my sample databases the relfilenode for pg_class > was 1259. So I checked the block number 190805 of the > 1259 file. Since the block size is 8K, 1259 was in > two files 1259 & 1259.1. The block number 190805 > falls in the second file who

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header in block 52979 of relation "pg_attribute"

2004-11-12 Thread Steve Crawford
On Friday 12 November 2004 7:54 am, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 04:29:38PM -0700, Steve Crawford wrote: > > True. I hadn't come up with a good time to get past that 7.4.1 -> > > 7.4.2 initdb requirement. I guess I'll have to go with the manual > > method. > > IIRC, the i

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header in block 52979 of relation "pg_attribute"

2004-11-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 04:29:38PM -0700, Steve Crawford wrote: > True. I hadn't come up with a good time to get past that 7.4.1 -> > 7.4.2 initdb requirement. I guess I'll have to go with the manual > method. IIRC, the initdb is recommended, but not required. It can be done without an initdb t

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header in block 52979 of relation "pg_attribute"

2004-11-11 Thread Tom Lane
Steve Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Could you get a hex dump of that page? > What is the best method to do this? There's always "od -x" ... however, if you prefer you can use pg_filedump from http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/. > Also, can I safely drop that table Not unless you want to

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header in block 52979 of relation "pg_attribute"

2004-11-11 Thread Steve Crawford
On Thursday 11 November 2004 3:14 pm, Tom Lane wrote: > Steve Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This morning I got bitten by the "SELECT INTO" / "CREATE TABLE > > AS" from tables without OIDs bug in 7.4.1. > > On a production server, you really ought to track bug-fix releases > a bit more en

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header in block 52979 of relation "pg_attribute"

2004-11-11 Thread Tom Lane
Steve Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This morning I got bitten by the "SELECT INTO" / "CREATE TABLE AS" > from tables without OIDs bug in 7.4.1. On a production server, you really ought to track bug-fix releases a bit more enthusiastically than that :-(. However, I don't see anything in

[GENERAL] invalid page header in block 52979 of relation "pg_attribute"

2004-11-11 Thread Steve Crawford
This morning I got bitten by the "SELECT INTO" / "CREATE TABLE AS" from tables without OIDs bug in 7.4.1. Postmaster killed all the backends and restarted - pg was down for 2 seconds. This happened two times within a few minute period. Now I am getting 'invalid page header in block 52979 of re

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid page header

2004-10-20 Thread Ed L.
On Wednesday October 20 2004 10:43, Ed L. wrote: > On Wednesday October 20 2004 10:12, Ed L. wrote: > > On Wednesday October 20 2004 10:00, Tom Lane wrote: > > > "Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > In other words, how do I calculate which bytes to zero to simulate > > > > zero_damaged_pages

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid page header

2004-10-20 Thread Ed L.
On Wednesday October 20 2004 10:00, Tom Lane wrote: > "Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In other words, how do I calculate which bytes to zero to simulate > > zero_damaged_pages?? > > Why simulate it, when you can just turn it on? But anyway, the answer > is "the whole page". Old 7.3.4 inst

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid page header

2004-10-20 Thread Tom Lane
"Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In other words, how do I calculate which bytes to zero to simulate > zero_damaged_pages?? Why simulate it, when you can just turn it on? But anyway, the answer is "the whole page". regards, tom lane ---(end o

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid page header

2004-10-20 Thread Ed L.
On Wednesday October 20 2004 10:12, Ed L. wrote: > On Wednesday October 20 2004 10:00, Tom Lane wrote: > > "Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In other words, how do I calculate which bytes to zero to simulate > > > zero_damaged_pages?? > > > > Why simulate it, when you can just turn it on?

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid page header

2004-10-20 Thread Ed L.
On Wednesday October 20 2004 5:34, Ed L. wrote: > I have 5 corrupted page headers as evidenced by these errors: > > ERROR: Invalid page header in block 13947 of ... > > The corruption is causing numerous queries to abort. First option is to > try to salvage data before attempt restore from

[GENERAL] Invalid page header

2004-10-20 Thread Ed L.
I have 5 corrupted page headers as evidenced by these errors: ERROR: Invalid page header in block 13947 of ... The corruption is causing numerous queries to abort. First option is to try to salvage data before attempt restore from backup. I want to try to edit the file to zero out t

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid page header

2003-12-04 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Looks bad. Have you got backups. Seriously! REINDEX works on system indexes but you have to drop to single user mode in postgres to do it. Check out the -P option in the manpage. Good luck! Hope this helps, On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:54:07PM -0700, Ed L. wrote: > I have a server with 20 pgsql c

[GENERAL] Invalid page header in block xxxx

2003-11-22 Thread Carmen Wai
Hello: I am a new user of postgresql. I am using postgresql 7.3.4 and I had inserted about 1.7 million records to a table. When I vacuum / select * from table, it gets a error message of : Invalid page header in block xxx of TableA. I check that I still can insert records to the table. But I am

[GENERAL] Invalid page header in block

2003-10-06 Thread CSN
There are a bunch of these in PG's log: ERROR: Invalid page header in block 14 of start_items_key What does it mean? PG seems to be working fine - anything I need to fix/adjust/worry about? TIA, CSN __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved prod