On 2025-Oct-15, Andrew Bille wrote:
> > Is this a hypothetical problem or something you've experienced?
>
> The problem is real: when trying to rescue data from a large corrupted
> database, we couldn't wait for the index definition query for more than 3
> hours.
Maybe it'd be reasonable to start the recovery by doing VACUUM FULL of
all/some system catalogs.
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Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/