> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> If you can tolerate losing the data on that page, just zero out the >>>> entire 8K page. dd from /dev/zero is the usual tool. >> >>> Would zero_damaged_pages work here? I know it's a shotgun to kill a >>> flea, but it's also easier and safer for a lot of folks than dding a >>> page in their table. >> >> It would work, but if you have any *other* damaged pages you might >> lose more than you were expecting ... > > Agreed. OTOH, on slip of the fingers for a newbie with dd and the > whole table is gone. I guess it's always a trade off. > > Thanks Tom and Scott! I just use dd for simply creating big files (oh, and once to screw up a entire disk :)
Im going to man it in order to zero out that page(s). Wish me lucks, dudes. Thanks! Gerardo -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql
