Re: Detecting corrupted pages earlier

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: "Andrew Sullivan" <andrew@libertyrms.info>, "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-04-03T04:36:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> What I'd really prefer to see is not a ZERO_DAMAGED_PAGES setting,
> but an explicit command to "DESTROY PAGE n OF TABLE foo".  That would
> make you manually admit defeat for each individual page before it'd
> drop data.  But I don't presently have time to implement such a command
> (any volunteers out there?).  Also, I could see where try-to-dump, fail,
> DESTROY, try again, lather, rinse, repeat, could get pretty tedious on a
> badly damaged table.

I'm not volunteering, but this would be better:

ALTER TABLE foo ZERO [ PAGE n | BAD PAGES ];

Chris