> I looked into the postgres manuals and as it suggests, I stopped
> postmaster and I tried to reindex this table in a standalone
> postgres. "reindex table" (without force) did not reindexed.
> "reindex index" dumped core. I dropped the primary index and
> tried to recreate it, but it also dumped core.
>
> I guess it falls under the 3rd category of your listed types of data loss.
> :-(
>
> The question still is : is this kind of failure repairable?
>
> The system is: RH 6.2, kernel-2.2.16-3, postgresql-7.0.3 rpms from
> ftp.postgresql.org.
Oh, I see. I don't know of any way to repair it.
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