Re: pg_group_name_index corrupt? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: pg_group_name_index corrupt?
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0005042350440.56194-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to Re: pg_group_name_index corrupt?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: pg_group_name_index corrupt?
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On Thu, 4 May 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> >> Would a pg_upgrade fix this, or do I have to do a whole dump/reload?  
> 
> > pg_upgrade *should* work, but if I were you I'd make a backup dump
> > first, just in case.  I don't trust pg_upgrade very much...
> 
> Oh, btw: pg_upgrade will *not* work to save and reload your group
> definitions, because neither it nor pg_dumpall do anything at all with
> pg_group!  For that matter, a full dumpall/reload won't preserve
> groups either!
> 
> I griped about that a week or so ago, but no one seems to have picked up
> on it.  Do you want to consider that a "must fix" problem as well?
> I think it's a pretty minor fix, but considering how late we are in the
> cycle...

considering where the problem is, I think that if it can be safely done,
please do it ...

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
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