Re: FATAL: catalog is missing 1 attribute(s) for relid - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: FATAL: catalog is missing 1 attribute(s) for relid
Date
Msg-id 20050114130616.G16498@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to Re: FATAL: catalog is missing 1 attribute(s) for relid  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: FATAL: catalog is missing 1 attribute(s) for relid 16396
Re: FATAL: catalog is missing 1 attribute(s) for relid 16396
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course that won't work, since its link'd to the oid of the table name :( 
whose idea was this "let's name the files by the OID" again? :(

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>> I'm still searching the 'net to see if there is somethign that I've
>>> overlooked ... but everything so far is drawing a deadend ... can someone
>>> suggest a web page I should read, a tool I could use, or something, to get
>>> the data out of this, that I'm not finding?  Or some way of 'fixing' relid
>>> 16396? :)
>> 
>> [ select 16396::regclass... ] pg_am?  You may be in luck, because that
>> is the one solitary system catalog that no one ever changes.  If that's
>> all that got hit you might have a chance.  What I'm wondering is just
>> exactly what the extent of the damage was.
>
> Nope, that doesn't work ... in fact, the 16396/pg_am table hadn't even been 
> modified since Jun of last year ;(
>
> If I rebuild pg_attribute based on the schema itself, and copy that into 
> place, should that work?  Guess at this point in time, it can't hurt to try 
> :)
>
>
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> Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
> Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664
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Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664


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