Re: pgsql 9.0.1 table corruption

From: Alan Hodgson <ahodgson(at)simkin(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql 9.0.1 table corruption
Date: 2011-04-14 16:08:27
Message-ID: 201104140908.27547.ahodgson@simkin.ca
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On April 14, 2011 08:10:47 am Dan Biagini wrote:

> I suspect that it may have occurred during a filesystem level backup
> (ie pg_start_backup(), tar -czf..., pg_stop_backup()), as I performed
> a backup and moved the database to a different system. After
> restoring the files and starting postgres I began getting these
> errors. I have tried restoring multiple times with the same tar
> archive with the same results (on different systems).

Did you perform a PITR restore using that tar as a base backup? Do any errors
occur? The tar file alone will not be an intact backup, as I'm sure you're
aware.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-
PITR-RECOVERY

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