Re: pg_dumpall dies

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Henrik Farre <look(at)my(dot)signature(dot)txt>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_dumpall dies
Date: 2004-02-21 04:55:33
Message-ID: 9238.1077339333@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Henrik Farre <look(at)my(dot)signature(dot)txt> writes:
> I just been choosen as sys adm on a small network. We have a old Sun Ultra
> 1 running postgresql 7.1.3. I would like to migrate the database to a new
> machine and a newer version of postgresql. But when I run the pg_dumpall
> command I get the followering error, after a while:

> WARNING: owner of type 'counter' appears to be invalid
> dumpRules(): SELECT failed for rules associated with table "counter".
> Explanation from backend: 'pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly.

It sounds like you have a badly corrupted database :-(. However, the
pg_dump message is of little help in delving further than that. What
shows up in the postmaster log? If the backend is dumping core, can
you get a stack trace?

regards, tom lane

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