Re: Servercrash

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>>yesterday our database-server crashed (raid-error). After reparing the
>>filesystem (ext2) we have a problem with our lagest table in the database.
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>>vaccuum aborts with the following meassage (sorry it is in German):
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>>DEBUG:  vacuume »messungen.massendaten«
>>HINWEIS:  Relation »massendaten« TID 211540/73:
>>DeleteTransactionInProgress 16785658 --- kann Relation nicht verkleinern
>>(cannot shrink relation)
>>DEBUG:  AbortCurrentTransaction
>>FEHLER:  ungültiger Seitenkopf in Block 354500 von Relation
>>»massendaten« (unvalid pagehead in block ...)
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>>All other operations using ctid 211540/73 give:
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>>FEHLER:  konnte auf den Status von Transaktion 16785658 nicht zugreifen
>>(could not get status of transaction ...)
>>DETAIL:  konnte Datei »/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_clog/0010« nicht öffnen:
>>Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
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>>Is there a way to repair the database?
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> You have at least two corrupted pages in that table: page 354500 has a
> header problem, and in page 211540 there's a bogus transaction ID in a
> tuple header.  These are the *minimum* descriptions of the data lossage,
> it's entirely likely that large parts of the pages involved are junk.
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> I would suggest proceeding by examining those pages with pg_filedump or
> another tool.  If you can make some sense of the damage it might be
> possible to do a selective repair.  If not, your best bet is to just
> zero out the damaged pages --- this will lose the rows that are on those
> pages, but at least you can get the rest of the table operational again.
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> You can find more about this by looking in the mail list archives.
> Threads mentioning pg_filedump would be good places to start.
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>             regards, tom lane
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We set zero_damaged_pages to on and get rid of page 354500. But the
error in page 211540 remains :-(...

Any idea?

Stefan
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