Re: FATAL: catalog is missing 1 attribute(s) for relid

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

>> I'm still searching the 'net to see if there is somethign that I've
>> overlooked ... but everything so far is drawing a deadend ... can someone
>> suggest a web page I should read, a tool I could use, or something, to get
>> the data out of this, that I'm not finding? Or some way of 'fixing' relid
>> 16396? :)
>
> [ select 16396::regclass... ] pg_am? You may be in luck, because that
> is the one solitary system catalog that no one ever changes. If that's
> all that got hit you might have a chance. What I'm wondering is just
> exactly what the extent of the damage was.

Nope, that doesn't work ... in fact, the 16396/pg_am table hadn't even
been modified since Jun of last year ;(

If I rebuild pg_attribute based on the schema itself, and copy that into
place, should that work? Guess at this point in time, it can't hurt to
try :)

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