Thread: Problems with my server...

Hi, there !!

I've got a problem in my PostgreSQL server. Anytime I issue some commands
(like vacuum...) I got the following message:

prescricoes=> vacuum;
ERROR:  cannot find attribute 3 of relation pg_views
prescricoes=>

what can be wrong ?? I think that all my data is there and I have no views
defined, so I really don't know what's going on...

Can someone help me??

Thank you for your support,

Paulo Ferreira

"Paulo Jorge Gomes Ferreira" <paulojf@srsleiria.min-saude.pt> writes:
> I've got a problem in my PostgreSQL server. Anytime I issue some commands
> (like vacuum...) I got the following message:

> prescricoes=> vacuum;
> ERROR:  cannot find attribute 3 of relation pg_views

What Postgres version are you running?  (I suspect it must be pre-7.1.)

It would seem that something bad has happened to some rows in
pg_attribute.  You might possibly be able to recover by reindexing
pg_attribute, but I'm not sure that REINDEX exists or is trustworthy
in whatever version you have.  Probably the best advice is to try
to pg_dump your database, and if that's successful re-initdb and
reload.  (You'd be well advised to update to 7.1.3 while you're at it.)

            regards, tom lane