Re: trying to repair a bad header block

"Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> If you can tolerate losing the data on that page, just zero out the
>> entire 8K page.  dd from /dev/zero is the usual tool.

> Would zero_damaged_pages work here?  I know it's a shotgun to kill a
> flea, but it's also easier and safer for a lot of folks than dding a
> page in their table.

It would work, but if you have any *other* damaged pages you might
lose more than you were expecting ...
        regards, tom lane