Re: Problem with a transaction on dump

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Froggy / Froggy Corp(dot)" <froggy(at)froggycorp(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Problem with a transaction on dump
Date: 2007-04-04 14:51:18
Message-ID: 21664.1175698278@sss.pgh.pa.us
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-general

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Froggy / Froggy Corp. wrote:
>> pg_dump: ERREUR: Impossible d'accder au statut de la transaction
>> 892415538

> What files are there in main/pg_clog?

Doesn't really matter --- I'd say it's pretty obviously a data corruption
problem. That value equates to 35312e32 hex which looks way too much
like ASCII. Investigation with pg_filedump might give some clue about
what happened, but if you just want to salvage what you can, the key is
to identify and zero out the broken page. See past discussions of
recovery from data corruption in the archives.

regards, tom lane

In response to

Browse pgsql-general by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Froggy / Froggy Corp. 2007-04-04 14:51:57 Re: Problem with a transaction on dump
Previous Message Alvaro Herrera 2007-04-04 14:38:39 Re: Problem with a transaction on dump