Akshay Ballarpure <akshay.ballarpure@xxxxxxx> writes: > I have a query on DB corruption. Is there any way to recover from it > without losing data ? You've already lost data, evidently. > Starting postgresql service: [ OK ] > psql: FATAL: index "pg_authid_rolname_index" contains unexpected zero page > at block 0 > HINT: Please REINDEX it. This is not good. It'd be possible to reindex that index, certainly, but the question is what other files have also been clobbered. > psql: FATAL: "base/11564" is not a valid data directory > DETAIL: File "base/11564/PG_VERSION" does not contain valid data. > HINT: You might need to initdb. Based on the OID I'm going to guess that this is from an attempt to connect to the "postgres" database. (I'm also going to guess that you're running 8.4.x, because any later PG version would have a higher OID for "postgres".) Can you connect to any other databases? If so, do their contents seem intact? If you're really lucky, meaning (a) the damage is confined to that DB and (b) you didn't keep any important data in it, then dropping and recreating the "postgres" DB might be enough to get you out of trouble. But pg_authid_rolname_index is a cluster-global index, not specific to the "postgres" DB, so the fact that it too seems to be damaged is not promising. TBH your best bet, if the data in this installation is valuable and you don't have adequate backups, is to hire a professional data recovery service --- there are several companies that specialize in getting as much out of a corrupted PG installation as possible. (See https://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support/ for some links.) You should then plan on updating to some newer PG release; 8.4.x has been out of support for years, and there are lots of known-and-unfixed bugs in it. regards, tom lane
