Re: BUG #5077: Corrupted Table

From: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
To: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: kaelten(at)gmail(dot)com ("Bryan McLemore")
Subject: Re: BUG #5077: Corrupted Table
Date: 2009-09-24 02:38:07
Message-ID: 874oqt2hkg.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
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>>>>> "Bryan" == "Bryan McLemore" <kaelten(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

Bryan> "invalid page header in block 900 of relation pg_tblspc/32041/138911/187737"

Bryan> http://pgsql.privatepaste.com/83JfmQGtS5

Privatepaste urls do expire, so for the record here is the relevant
part of the data in question:

00000000 82 00 00 00 50 01 72 8a 01 00 04 00 00 00 84 03 |....P.r.........|
00000010 02 00 04 20 13 01 d9 00 a8 8e a2 01 d0 8d a2 01 |... ............|
00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 16 00 01 00 17 00 01 00 |................|
00000040 18 00 01 00 19 00 01 00 1a 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000050 1b 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000060 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e8 9e 24 02 |..............$.|
00000070 60 9e 0c 01 d0 9d 1c 01 10 9d 74 01 48 9c 84 01 |`.........t.H...|
00000080 c0 9b 0c 01 e8 9a a2 01 30 9a 6c 01 50 99 bc 01 |........0.l.P...|
00000090 1c 00 01 00 1d 00 01 00 1e 00 01 00 28 00 01 00 |............(...|
000000a0 29 00 01 00 2a 00 01 00 2b 00 01 00 2c 00 01 00 |)...*...+...,...|
000000b0 2d 00 01 00 30 98 32 02 68 97 8c 01 80 96 cc 01 |-...0.2.h.......|
000000c0 d8 95 44 01 98 94 74 02 c0 93 a8 01 a8 92 24 02 |..D...t.......$.|
000000d0 20 92 0c 01 90 91 1c 01 d0 90 74 01 08 90 84 01 | .........t.....|
000000e0 80 8f 0c 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
000000f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|

The data appears intact other than invalid values for pd_lower and pd_special
(and possibly pd_upper, wasn't sure about that one).

Bryan> The reason they asked me to report this is that it appears
Bryan> this occured when a disk filled up while pg_dump was running.

I have no idea whether the disk full was the cause of this, but there
was no evidence in the page data of a hardware failure, so it could do
with investigation. (I don't know of any external cause that could damage
pd_lower while leaving the rest of the page intact.)

I did ask Bryan on IRC to make a copy of his data directory before doing
the fix.

--
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)

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