Re: Fixing or Mitigating this ERROR: invalid page in block 35217 of relation base/16421/3192429

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 5:53 PM Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:

* Abdul Qoyyuum (aqoyyuum@cardaccess.com.bn) wrote:
> Knowing that it's a data corruption issue, the only way to fix this is to
> vacuum and reindex the database. What was suggested was the following:
>
> SET zero_damaged_pages = 0; # This is so that we can have the application
> to continue to run
> VACUUM FULL VERBOSE ANALYSE; # Do a full vacuum and analyse the problem if
> possible.
> REINDEX DATABASE "core"; # Then do a reindex and clean it up.

This is only going to help if the issue is in an index, which isn't
clear from what's been shared.

That is a good point. Problem is I can't really find out as the logs isn't that verbose to tell me more.

it happened (almost exactly
> a year ago) and I think this needs a more permanent solution. I've looked
> at routine vacuuming and checked the autovacuum is set to on and the
> following configurations:

This isn't something that should ever happen ...

This also doesn't have anything to do with autovacuum, changing settings
there won't make any difference.

Noted but it has been a clean running since a year ago that I ran the vacuum and reindex commands. 

> Can anyone advise if there's anything else we can do? We have no clue what
> causes the invalid page block and we are running a High Availability
> cluster set up but we are hoping that there may be a way to mitigate it.

Was there some kind of hardware fault?  Did you do a failover?  Restore
from a backup?  Do you have checksums enabled?  How many times has this
happened before, and how many pages were impacted?  What is the design
of your HA solution, are you using PG replication or something else? 

There have been a few maintenance operations earlier this year but nothing too critical or anything failed that would have caused the database to go corrupt. The HA solution we're using is the pacemaker with the active passive setup.

Unsure if sharing the relevant WAL settings from postgresql.conf may be useful but here they are:

max_connections = 300
shared_buffers = 128MB

archive_mode = on
archive_command = 'test ! -f /opt/databases/postgres12/wal_archive/%f && cp %p /opt/databases/postgres12/wal_archive/%f'