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Responses Re: backing up corrupt database  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: backing up corrupt database  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
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My first post didn't work, so here goes again

I want to backup my database, which appears to be corrupt.  The projects
table is corrupt:
bash$ pg_dump devtest2
pg_dump: Attempt to lock table "projects" failed.  ERROR:  cannot find
attribute
 8 of relation projects

When I try to drop this corrupted table:
devtest2=# drop table projects;
ERROR:  cannot find attribute 8 of relation projects

How can I manually purge this table from the system tables so that I can run
a backup and then recreate the database?

Thanks

Terry Fielder
Network Engineer
Great Gulf Homes / Ashton Woods Homes
terry@greatgulfhomes.com



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