"Thomas F. O'Connell" <tfo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > In the meantime, should I leave the database online while I attempt > to recover? It's still unclear to me whether postgres will restart > with invalid page headers. I certainly can't run pg_dumpall, for > instance. Has the database successfully checkpointed since the last error occurrence? If so, I wouldn't foresee any problem with a shutdown. If checkpoints are failing then you probably won't be able to shut down without getting the same error. (Use pg_controldata if you're not sure about when the last checkpoint happened.) > I'm glad that there have so far been only 3 relations affected... :( You mean, three that you know about :-( regards, tom lane
