[GENERAL] help troubleshooting invalid page header error

2014-12-22 Thread Cory Zue
Hi all, Our postgres instance on one of our production machines has recently been returning errors of the form "DatabaseError: invalid page header in block 1 of relation base/16384/76623" from normal queries. I've been reading that these are often linked to hardware errors, but I would like to bet

Re: [GENERAL] help troubleshooting invalid page header error

2014-12-26 Thread Cory Zue
ny general bits of information regarding the potential causes of these types of issues would be much appreciated. thanks, Cory On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 6:55 AM, Sameer Kumar wrote: > On 23 Dec 2014 12:05, "Cory Zue" wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Our pos

Re: [GENERAL] help troubleshooting invalid page header error

2014-12-26 Thread Cory Zue
PM, chiru r wrote: > Hi Cory, > > After recovering table turn off *zero_damaged_pages *parameter. > > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Cory Zue wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Thanks for the responses. Chiru, I'm looking into your suggestion. >> >

Re: [GENERAL] help troubleshooting invalid page header error

2014-12-26 Thread Cory Zue
(nevermind - it looks like the zero_damaged_pages setting only took for the duration of the session) On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Cory Zue wrote: > Hi Chiru, > > I am trying to pg_dump the database to have a snapshot of the current > state. I've turned on 'zero_damaged

Re: [GENERAL] help troubleshooting invalid page header error

2014-12-28 Thread Cory Zue
a hardware issue on my machine? Is there anything else that could be causing this to come back? thanks, Cory On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Cory Zue wrote: > Hi Chiru, > > I am trying to pg_dump the database to have a snapshot of the current > state. I've turned on 'ze