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. -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql
