"Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> 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 ...
regards, tom lane