Re: invalid page header in block 52979 of relation "pg_attribute"

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>
Cc: "PostgreSQL" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: invalid page header in block 52979 of relation "pg_attribute"
Date: 2004-11-11 23:48:00
Message-ID: 13097.1100216880@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> writes:
>> Could you get a hex dump of that page?

> What is the best method to do this?

There's always "od -x" ... however, if you prefer you can use
pg_filedump from http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/.

> Also, can I safely drop that table

Not unless you want to drop the whole database.

regards, tom lane

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