Achilleas Mantzios <achill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Then i did > # CREATE TABLE mail_entity2 AS SELECT * FROM mail_entity; > which went fine > but, for some crazy reason, pg_dump on mail_entity2 also results to an error: > srv:~> pg_dump -t mail_entity2 > /dev/null > pg_dump: SQL command failed > pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: compressed data is corrupt The create/select would not have bothered to decompress any inline-compressed datums, so the corrupted data went right over to the new table. I think you'll have to engage in another round of divide-and-conquer to locate the specific row or rows with a corrupted value. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin