That makes sense. Is there a way that is less drastic than dumping,
re-initdb, and reloading the database? It would probably take a day or
two to do this. Does anybody know if I can fix the catalog in another
way?
-Tony
Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> That behaviour reminds me of a similar situation, where an
> index of one of the user tables was corrupt, causing vacuum
> to loop on that (all blocks cached so no HD activity).
>
> Dropping/recreating the index in question solved that
> problem.
>
> But the difference this time is that it does not occur when
> you manually vacuum all the user tables. So if it's the same
> reason (corrupt index), this time it must be one of a system
> catalog.
>
> Can you dump/initdb/reload your database?
>
> Jan
>
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