Re: database corruption

On 12 February 2016 at 17:56, Oliver Stöneberg <oliverst(at)online(dot)de> wrote:

> A few weeks ago we already had a data corruption when the disk was
> full. There are other services running on the same machine that could
> cause the disk to fill up (e.g. local chaching when the network is
> acting up). It happened a few times so far but the database was never
> compromised. In that case thought it was but fortunately we only lost
> a huge table/toast (300+ GB) that has very verbose data stored which
> is not essential. That happened with an earlier 9.4 version.
>

What remedial action was taken to restore the database to normal
functionality at this time?

Is the current database a direct descendant of the one that was corrupted
here? i.e. has it had a complete dump, initdb and restore since then, or
not?

Unfortunately we don't have a recent backup of the database (a tool
> to back up all the relevant data was just finished recently and was
> not set up for this system yet).
>

Read and act on https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Corruption immediately.

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