Re: FSM corruption leading to errors

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Michael Paquier
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 5:17 AM, Jim Nasby <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 10/20/16 10:15 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>>
>>> 2) If anything is found, stop the server and delete the files manually.
>>> 3) Re-start the server.
>>> OK, that's troublesome and costly for large relations, but we know
>>> that's the safest way to go for any versions, and there is no need to
>>> complicate the code with any one-time repairing extensions.
>>
>> Wouldn't you need to run around to all your replicas and do that as well?
>
> Yeah...

Release notes refer to this page for methods to fix corrupted instances:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Free_Space_Map_Problems
I just typed something based on Pavan's upper method, feel free to
jump in and improve it as necessary.
-- 
Michael