It appears that I have a bad block/disk sector etc., which is preventing me from retrieving the rows from this table. All other tables within this database is fine. In preparation for zeroing out the bad block I tried to do a cold backup/ copy cp -r * ../data2/ and received the following from cp cp: base/9221176/9221183: I/O error So I set the parameter zero_damaged_pages=true and tried running vacuum on the table vacuum full docs; ERROR: could not read block 67680 of relation base/9221176/9221183: I/O error Next I looked at the directories in /data/base/9221176 -bash-3.00$ ls 9221183* 9221183 9221183.1 9221183.2 9221183_fsm 9221183_vm I am trying to find the file that contains the bad block. Calculating the chunk number gives me 9221183/ 131072 = 70.352043152 But this .xx doesn’t exist. Also I’m not sure what _fsm or _vm file is or how to proceed. I do not have a recent backup of this database/table. It contains a bytea field which stores documents and is quite large compared to the rest of the database., Any help would be appreciated. Thanks -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
