PostgreSQL volume corruption - "Structure needs cleaning"
michal-sta
PROOP

a month ago

- Database keeps crashing with "could not flush dirty data: Structure needs cleaning"

- Happened twice this week

- Service ID: 5d5fc76c-c7f7-4668-8feb-ae92da64d15e

- Volume ID: gun-2026-01-25 00:32 UTC

$10 Bounty

2 Replies

Railway
BOT

a month ago

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Anonymous
HOBBY

a month ago

if you have backups i would restore from a Volume Backup, fastest possible fix

from the docs
Open the service that had the volume mounted

Go to Settings → Backups.

Pick a backup from before the first corruption event.

Click Restore.

Railway will stage changes for review, open the details and then Deploy to finalize

waht about replacing the volume?

You could create a fresh postgre node and restore from your own backups/files keeping the one your trying to save in place


michal-sta
PROOP

a month ago

It's not a fix. I just move my database to other service - Supabase


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