Re: unable to dump database, toast errors

Lonni Friedman wrote:
>
> On 04/06/03 14:50, Jan Wieck wrote:
> >>From that I would assume that the row at offset 693 is totally intact
> > but the one at 694 is the one damaged. LIMIT reads one more row
> > internally than you asked for.
> >
> > Get the key of the row at 694 (and others you might find) and continue
> > the work using those keys.
>
> I'm not sure that I understand what it is that I need to do now:
>
> sfee=# select bin_data from artifact_file LIMIT 1 OFFSET 694;
> ERROR: missing chunk number 1 for toast value 7685119
> sfee=# select LENGTH(bin_data) from artifact_file LIMIT 1 OFFSET 694;
> ERROR: missing chunk number 1 for toast value 7685119
>
> How would i get the key of row 694?

does that table have any OTHER fields than the one that is knowingly
corrupted?

Jan
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