Re: 7.3.4 Table corruption

Thanks for the advice.  I'll relax the constraints on the table, and
reload that table from the dump, might take a while to fix any problems,
but it should be safer.

Regards, Andrew

Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Farmer <mail@andrewfarmer.com> writes:
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>>My question is, if I load the good dump into a clean database, and then
>>find the underlying file that represents the broken table and copy it
>>over the top of the broken table, am I likely to face any big problems?
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>This strikes me as a real good way to shoot yourself in the foot ;-).
>Better take a backup and be prepared to restore from it.  And I'd
>suggest experimenting in a scratch installation before you try it for
>real.
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>Having said that, I think it would work, if your "clean database" is
>another DB in the same cluster (you could *not* copy from data prepared
>under a different postmaster).  And you'll need to copy all the indexes
>on that table, and its toast table and toast table index if it has one.
>And shut down the postmaster while you do the copying.
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>            regards, tom lane
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