Re: corruption bug in 7.2.3-RH

Tom Lane wrote:
> Jonathan Ellis <jonathan(at)carnageblender(dot)com> writes:
>> when trying to vacuum I got this:
>> FATAL 2: PageIndexTupleDelete: corrupted page pointers: lower = 21845,
>> upper = 21845, special = 21845
>
> Hmm ... 21845 = hex 5555, and you have the same in at least three places
> in the page header ... you have a badly clobbered page there. Check
> for hardware problems.

memtest86 said 3 of my 4 dimms had bad spots. ouch.

>> I experimentally determined the problem was with my "users" table. I
>> did a pg_dump -t on it, manually deleted all triggers, dropped the
>> table, and loaded from the dump. This fixed it.
>
> But you probably lost a few rows, like whatever was on the trashed page
> (or pages?). Can you do anything to crosscheck the data you have left?

All the referential integrity triggers restored w/o complaining. (And
_every_ entry in this table is used as a key in at least two other
tables.) Looks like I lucked out.

-Jonathan