On Wednesday February 7 2007 9:01 am, Tom Lane wrote: > "Ed L." <pgsql@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > How do I fix this 7.4.6 issue short of initdb? > > invalid page header in block 110 of relation "pg_statistic" > > I looked at the block via pg_filedump (included below), and > > it does not appear to me to be corrupted, so not sure what I > > would zero out, if anything. > > Seems odd to me too ... but pg_statistic doesn't contain any > irreplaceable data. See if you can TRUNCATE it. If so, do > an ANALYZE to repopulate it. I don't recall if 7.4 has any > special hoops you'd have to jump through to truncate a system > catalog ... Scheduled downtime finally arrived last night, and I tried unsuccessfully to truncate this table: postgres -D $PGDATA -O -o standalone_log mydb > truncate pg_statistic; > ^D pg_ctl start psql -d mydb -c "vacuum analyze" The truncate showed no errors. The vacuum analyze showed the same error in block 110 of the pg_statistic table. Any ideas what I'm missing here? Is there another acceptable way to truncate that table, perhaps "rm file; touch file"? Ed