Re: system view corrupted, i get "unexpected right parenthesis" for many system tables.

you are correct and we've gone down that road. i build my db with 8.0.1,
and i've upgraded through to 8.0.5 as time went by and i never noticed an
issue with it until i went to bump to 8.1 today.

i've tried with and without the hier patch and neither seems to work. i
have a few options left to try but i might be reduced to stitching together
COPYs and system tables from an older backup.

On 1/9/06, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> David Ford <firefighterblu3(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > i encountered this when trying to do a pg_dumpall in preparation for
> moving
> > from 8.0 to 8.1.
>
> Would it be too far off to guess that you're running Gentoo? This looks
> like ye olde problem with that hierarchical-queries patch that they push
> on people. Either adding or removing the patch breaks your database :-(.
> Since your rewrite rule looks standard, I'm guessing that you rebuilt
> and added the patch at some point after initially building your database.
> Reconfigure 8.0 the way you originally built it and you should be OK ...
> unless you have views that you created after changing ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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