I have been having disk errors that have corrupted something in my postgres database. Other databases work ok: Running on Ubuntu 10.04. paul@kitanglad:~$ psql -U postgres psql (9.4.5) Type "help" for help. postgres=# SELECT pg_catalog.pg_is_in_recovery(); ERROR: could not read block 3 in file "base/12511/12270": read only 4096 of 8192 bytes postgres=# \c pjtest You are now connected to database "pjtest" as user "postgres". pjtest=# SELECT pg_catalog.pg_is_in_recovery(); pg_is_in_recovery ------------------- f (1 row) Since this is the "postgres" database, dropping and re-creating it doesn't seem possible. pg_dump also gets the same error when I run it on "postgres" so pg_basebackup will probably get the same error. The only thing I can think of is to create a completely new data directory with initdb and pg_dump/restore all the databases in the cluter to the new data directory. Is this my only option? PJ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general