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From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Table corrupted and data lost (second time in one month!!)
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In response to Table corrupted and data lost (second time in one month!!)  ("J.Fernando Moyano" <txinete@wanadoo.es>)
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Fernando,

> A table has been corrupted and i don't know why...
> It's really hard to recover the table, and last time i lost some data
> ;-(
> 
> Someone can help me to solve this problem ??? I don't want this table
> corrupted anymore ....

My first thought would be hardware problems.  Have you tried doing a
full sector-by-sector scan on that HDD, or better yet, moving the whole
database to an alternate server?

BTW, I run Postgres on top of ReiserFS, which cuts down my disk errors
significantly.

-Josh

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