unable to repair table: missing chunk number
Alex Krohn <alex@gossamer-threads.com>
From: Alex Krohn <alex@gossamer-threads.com>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-04-19T19:05:56Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Hi, I'm having serious troubles trying to fix a corrupted table, and am hoping the data is not gone. When I try to do any sort of SELECT, or COPY that accesses a part of the table, I get: ERROR: missing chunk number 0 for toast value 12851102 I get this using pg_dump, the COPY command, or even if I just do a SELECT when I access records with id's > 115,000 (out of around 140,000 records). Is there any type of repair tool I can use to fix the table? Or am I looking at off disk backups (problem is I don't know when the table went bad). A search on 'missing chunk number' produced no help. Any help on how I can get the data dumped to a file would be greatly appreciated. I'm using Postgres 7.2.1 built from source on a Linux 2.4.3-6smp #1 SMP Wed May 16 04:29:16 EDT 2001 i686 unknown machine. Cheers, Alex