Re: ERROR: could not read block 3 in file "base/12511/12270"

On 12/23/2015 04:17 PM, Paul Jones wrote:

I have been having disk errors that have corrupted something in
my postgres database.  Other databases work ok:

Running on Ubuntu 10.04.

paul@kitanglad:~$ psql -U postgres
psql (9.4.5)
Type "help" for help.

postgres=# SELECT pg_catalog.pg_is_in_recovery();
ERROR:  could not read block 3 in file "base/12511/12270": read only 4096 of 8192 bytes
postgres=# \c pjtest
You are now connected to database "pjtest" as user "postgres".
pjtest=# SELECT pg_catalog.pg_is_in_recovery();
  pg_is_in_recovery
  -------------------
   f
(1 row)


Since this is the "postgres" database, dropping and re-creating it
doesn't seem possible.  pg_dump also gets the same error when I run
it on "postgres" so pg_basebackup will probably get the same error.

The only thing I can think of is to create a completely new data directory
with initdb and pg_dump/restore all the databases in the cluter to the
new data directory.

Is this my only option?

No, the 'postgres' database is one of the system databases created from a template