From: | "Shoaib Mir" <shoaibmir(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Darren Reed" <darrenr+postgres(at)fastmail(dot)net> |
Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: How to reindex when unable to open relation? |
Date: | 2008-02-26 06:33:07 |
Message-ID: | bf54be870802252233o5d7aa387o2c1eac2fcd2ae9fe@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Darren Reed <darrenr+postgres(at)fastmail(dot)net>
wrote:
> Inserts into my table started generating an error message (see below),
> and there was a log message that suggested I reindex.
>
> postgres seems to start and stop ok, but no operations on the tables
> seem to work.
>
> l# /usr/pkg/bin/pg_dump -s -U postgres
> pg_dump: failed sanity check, parent table OID 16401 of pg_rewrite entry
> OID 16403 not found
>
> Is this recoverable without using a backup?
>
>
Looks like to me corrupted system catalog!
I guess when you dropped the table it didn't delete the record from
pg_rewrite was not deleted when the parent table was dropped. So you can try
doing something:
delete from pg_rewrite where oid = 16403;
And see if this can fix the problem..
--
Shoaib Mir
Fujitsu Australia Software Technology
shoaibm[(at)]fast(dot)fujitsu(dot)com(dot)au
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