Re: URGENT! pg_dump doesn't work!

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Wim wrote:

> Hello guys,
>
> I have a problem with my postgres 7.2.1 database.
> I can't perform a pg_dump one my database...
> The message I get back is:
>
> pg_dump: query to obtain list of tables failed: server closed the
> connection unexpectedly
> This probably means the server terminated abnormally
> before or while processing the request.
> pg_dump failed on belbonedb_v2, exiting
>
> Whe I connect to the database and do:
>
> belbonedb_v2=# \dt networks
>
> I get:
>
> ERROR: AllocSetFree: cannot find block containing chunk 4aee70
>
>
> Can I fix this error?

Is this perhaps another of those hardware errors that seem to be turning up at
the moment?

So Wim, did you have improper shutdowns? Are you confident in your memory and
hard disk(s)?

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Nigel J. Andrews
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