Re: Scary behavior after power failure

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: siracusa(at)mindspring(dot)com
Cc: Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Scary behavior after power failure
Date: 2004-05-14 14:03:17
Message-ID: 22396.1084543397@sss.pgh.pa.us
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John Siracusa <siracusa(at)mindspring(dot)com> writes:
> We had a power failure (and a UPS failure) on our database machine. It's
> back up now but some spooky stuff is happening.

I'm wondering if you are using IDE drives that lie about write
completion. You'd never notice until something like this happens.

> Is there any way I can "sanity check" the remaining tables for craziness
> like this?

dump, initdb, reload would be my suggestion.

regards, tom lane

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