pg_class relfilenode

From: Muteki Fong <szemingfong(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pg_class relfilenode
Date: 2004-02-10 09:23:25
Message-ID: 20040210092325.76215.qmail@web41003.mail.yahoo.com
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Hi,

I am currently having the corrupted tables issues
described in the following link (possibly caused by
power failure,
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2003-04/msg00012.php)
Since we have our systems being deployed to different
clients (psql 7.2.3), upgrading the entire database
(with data migration) will be the least preferable
solution. I am thinking of creating a script that
periodically check the relfilenode inside the pg_class
and if there is any mismatch between what pg_class
described and what actually exists in the file system,
the script will touch that file and try to drop the
table. However, once I wrote the script and started
testing it, I found that there are already some files
(mainly pg_*) tables/indexes are not being consistent
with the filesystem. Is it going to harm the database
if I blindly touch those files? Or is there any
workaround/trick/patch I can apply to version 7.2.3
without upgrading the whole database?

Thanks,

--szeming

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