Re: ERROR: nodeRead: did not find '}' [x2] - Mailing list pgsql-general

I've reinstalled postgres, but the same errors happen.
I've tried connection to more databases, but the error show everytime.

psql -U shadow dc
Password:
ERROR:  nodeRead: did not find '}' at end of plan node
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dc=> \dt
ERROR:  current transaction is aborted, queries ignored until end of
transaction block
dc=>

???

This is the log from when the forced system shutdown happened:

LOG:  pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
LOG:  pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
LOG:  pq_recvbuf: unexpected EOF on client connection
LOG:  fast shutdown request
LOG:  shutting down
LOG:  database system is shut down
LOG:  database system was shut down at 2003-11-06 23:21:03 EET
LOG:  checkpoint record is at 0/7CDAC94
LOG:  redo record is at 0/7CDAC94; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE
LOG:  next transaction id: 115743; next oid: 205535
LOG:  database system is ready
LOG:  database system was interrupted at 2003-11-06 23:21:05 EET
LOG:  checkpoint record is at 0/7CDAC94
LOG:  redo record is at 0/7CDAC94; undo record is at 0/0; shutdown TRUE
LOG:  next transaction id: 115743; next oid: 205535
LOG:  database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in
progress
LOG:  ReadRecord: record with zero length at 0/7CDACD4
LOG:  redo is not required
LOG:  database system is ready


On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

> Andrei Ivanov <andrei.ivanov@ines.ro> writes:
> > it seems my postgresql data has somehow become corrupted (by a forced
> > shutdown I think):
>
> > psql template1 -U shadow
> > Password:
> > ERROR:  nodeRead: did not find '}' at end of plan node
>
> and
>
> > pg_dump: SQL command failed
> > pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR:  nodeRead: did not find '}' at
> > end of plan node
> > pg_dump: The command was: select (select usename from pg_user where
> > usesysid = datdba) as dba, encoding, datpath from pg_database where
> > datname = 'cinema'
> > pg_dumpall: pg_dump failed on cinema, exiting
>
> These both look like the pg_user view is corrupted.
>
> It seems hard to believe that identical corruption could have affected
> two databases at once.  Do you see this same problem with all your
> databases (if you have any more than template1 and cinema)?  If so,
> I wonder whether the postgres executable got corrupted --- it'd not be
> very common for a system failure to corrupt files that aren't being
> modified, but perhaps it could happen.  If it is that, you could fix it
> with a quick reinstall of the RPM.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>