>> There is no good way to make the poor soul who has no standby server >> happy here. You're just choosing between bad alternatives. The first >> block error is often just that--the first one, to be joined by others >> soon afterward. My experience at how drives fail says the second error >> is a lot more likely after you've seen one.
For what it's worth Oracle allows you to recover a specific block from backups including replaying the archive logs for that one block. -- greg -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers