On 2/17/20 08:23, Jeremy Schneider wrote: > FWIW, Bertrand blogged an even faster way to do this about a month ago - > using pageinspect and processing blocks instead of rows > > https://bdrouvot.wordpress.com/2020/01/18/retrieve-postgresql-variable-length-storage-information-thanks-to-pageinspect/ > > >> On Feb 17, 2020, at 03:32, Nick Renders <postgres@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> The problem is that I don't know which column is corrupt. But I found >> a solution: by simply copying the record into another variable, the >> values are parsed and the TOAST errors are thrown. >> >> In case anyone's interested, here's my code, based on an example from >> http://www.databasesoup.com/2013/10/de-corrupting-toast-tables.html Apologies - sent that slightly rushed email while I was taking the bus to the office this morning and linked the wrong blog post :D Here's the right one, showing a much faster way to identify which tuple links to a bad toast row: https://bdrouvot.wordpress.com/2020/01/04/get-toast-chunk_id-from-the-user-table-tuples-or-from-the-toast-index-thanks-to-pageinspect/ -Jeremy -- http://about.me/jeremy_schneider
