RE: Postgres not finding tables

Thanks for the advice, but no luck. I tried dumping and restoring each
database, when that didn't work I tried dumping and restoring the entire
database and still the same results... any other thoughts (please!)?

-Jim

James> Hello All, I have 2 identical machines running redhat 5.2 and
James> postgres 6.5. One machine is a replica of the other
(backup).

James> Recently I noticed that postgres gives the error:
"Couldn't find
James> any tables, sequences or indices!"

James> whenever I tried '\d' or '\d*' on one of the
machines. BUT the
James> database DOES contain tables because I can execute
'select * from
James> testtable;' and postgres will display the table info.

James> The tables are there, but for some reason postgres
can't see them
James> correctly.

James> Has anyone seen this before, if so any help is
greatly appreciated!

>I have seen this where I copied the files in
>/var/lib/pgsql/data/base/mydb to
>another machine. If you use pg_dump/psql -e to move the data
>it works. Both
>my machines are running RH6.2, but I think one was PG 7.0 and
>the other was
>7.0.2.