Corrupted table - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Robert Mosher
Subject Corrupted table
Date
Msg-id Pine.SOL.3.91.1011008163319.10440A-100000@orion.cc.andrews.edu
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Responses Re: Corrupted table  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-novice
In a Perl script I ended up trying to UPDATE a row in my database with a
value that was out of the range. Now whenever I try to do something with
the table I get the error:

    ERROR:  mdopen: couldn't open tablename: No such file or directory

I can't even drop the table, despite the fact that it shows up when I
enter '\dt' in psql. I could probably run destroydb on the
database that contains the table, but I would prefer not too (although if
it comes to it, it wouldn't be too devastating). Is there anyway to fix
this problem.

Note: The type of the field that was out of range is int4. When I
recreate the table I'm planning to make it of type int8, but would like
to know if there is a type for unsigned integers?

Thanks,
Rob Mosher

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