Re: Incomplete pg_dump operation

Done. The command generates no response. I'm returned to a command prompt. If I append a semicolon to the command, I get a syntax error.

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At 07:39 AM 2/7/2010, Francisco Leovey wrote:
>Just do a
> SELECT * from xyz where OID = 2196359751
>
>--- On Sun, 2/7/10, peter(at)vfemail(dot)net <peter(at)vfemail(dot)net> wrote:
>From: peter(at)vfemail(dot)net <peter(at)vfemail(dot)net>
>Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Incomplete pg_dump operation
>To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
>Date: Sunday, February 7, 2010, 9:36 AM
>
>Thinking more about corruption of some type inside my database and whether an index has become corrupted, I investigated the REINDEX command described at pp. 288 and 847-849 of the 1335-page PostgreSQL 7.4.2 Documentation manual at <<http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/pdf/7.4/postgresql-7.4.2-US.pdf>http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/pdf/7.4/postgresql-7.4.2-US.pdf>http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/pdf/7.4/postgresql-7.4.2-US.pdf
>This morning, I executed a:
> REINDEX DATABASE database_name FORCE;
>command, and received a bunch of:
> NOTICE: table "pg_xxxxx" was reindexed
>messages -- which all look just fine.
>I then executed a:
> REINDEX TABLE xyz;
>command -- using the table name pg_dump was complaining about yesterday -- and received this message:
> ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2196359751
>making reference to the same OID pg_dump complained about yesterday.
>How do I identify this offensive data record that's causing so much disruption and, perhaps, delete it?
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>At 10:08 AM 2/6/2010, <http://us.mc517.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=peter(at)vfemail(dot)net>peter(at)vfemail(dot)net wrote:
>>A shell script runs pg_dump once each day to backup a Postgresql database and then compress it for storage. The script and backup process worked flawlessly for years, but now returns these error messages:
>>
>> pg_dump: ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2196359751
>> pg_dump: SQL command to dump the contents of table "xyz" failed: PQendcopy() failed.
>> pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: could not open relation with OID 2196359751
>> pg_dump: The command was: COPY public.xyz ({various_field_names}) TO stdout;
>>
>>The pg_dump command halts with these error messages after copying or dumping about 50% of the database. Accordingly, only a fraction of the database is actually being backed up.
>>
>>Is there corruption of some type inside my PostgreSQL database? Has an index or something similar become corrupted?
>
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