Re: Urgent !!!! Tables inaccessible postgres v17.6

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: mahamood hussain <hussain(dot)ieg(at)gmail(dot)com>, Licio Matos <licio(dot)matos(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Urgent !!!! Tables inaccessible postgres v17.6
Date: 2026-08-14 22:09:11
Message-ID: 927e28d9d875aa9f1812c54d12fdffa6ba41f68a.camel@cybertec.at
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On Thu, 2026-08-13 at 14:25 +0530, mahamood hussain wrote:

> We are using Azure Premium SSD v2, which provides 99.999999999% durability, and my
> understanding is that Azure designed this storage to support configurations such as
> RAID 0 when higher IOPS/throughput are required.

I don't know how "durability" is defined there.
You got corruption, so either that's durable corruption or you are in the 0.000000001%.

> For context, these databases were recently migrated from DB2 to PostgreSQL. In DB2,
> we have the concept of storage groups and storage paths, which allows us to place
> tablespaces across multiple disks/storage paths for performance and I/O distribution.

If you control the storage, nothing keeps you from creating your data directory
in a file system that is striped across multiple devices to achieve the same thing.
But in a virtualized environment, that's pretty moot: it all ends up on the same
storage anyway.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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