You should probably be asking yourself why you have corruption in your database. I suspect whatever hardware that database is on is having problems that need to be addressed. On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 05:42:16PM -0700, Kevin Seghetti wrote: > I am using postgres 7.4.5, and have a corrupt pg_statistic. > Many commands cause the following error: > ERROR: invalid page header in block 10 of relation "pg_statistic" > > I want to preserve my data if at all possible, I figured I would just > dump the database and reload it. I tried > pg_dump, but it gives me: > pg_dump: query to obtain list of data types failed: ERROR: invalid page header in block 11 of relation "pg_statistic" > even if I just try to dump a single table. > > I tried postgres in single-user mode: > delete from pg_statistic > gives me the same error > drop table pg_statistic > gives me > ERROR: permission denied: "pg_statistic" is a system catalog > > Is there any way to nuke pg_statistic (since its contents can be > recalculated anyway?) > > Thanks, > > -- > Kevin Seghetti: E-Mail: kts@xxxxxxxxxxx, HTTP: www.tenetti.org > GPG public key: http://tenetti.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view.cgi/KevinSeghetti/GPGKey > Check out www.worldfoundry.org for my GPL'ed 3D video game engine > Copyright is a temporary loan from the public domain, not property > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
