Re: Database Startup Failure: FATAL: could not read block 6 of relation 16390/16391/5153282: Success

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Harris <michael(dot)harris(at)ericsson(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Database Startup Failure: FATAL: could not read block 6 of relation 16390/16391/5153282: Success
Date: 2009-11-10 01:03:45
Message-ID: 13023.1257815025@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Michael Harris <michael(dot)harris(at)ericsson(dot)com> writes:
> I have been asked to help recover a database that seems to have been corrupted after a power failure.

What PG version is this exactly?

> Also what does it mean by "Success" in the FATAL message?

It's probably a read-past-EOF case.

regards, tom lane

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