Thread: PostgreSQL coredump : Couldn't find any tables, sequences or indices!
re-Hello, First, a little rectification, it's PostgreSQL 6.5.2 and not 6.5.3 as I wrote in the last message... Second : I've tried doing a vacuumdb of the database but it don't changes anything... I'm still having the message "Couldn't find any tables, sequences or indices!". :-( It looks like the PostgreSQL system tables are corrupted... Any idea to fix that problem ? --------------------------------------- Bruno BAGUETTE - pgsql-ml@baguette.net > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Bruno BAGUETTE [mailto:pgsql-ml@baguette.net] > Envoyé : mercredi 11 juin 2003 10:34 > À : 'pgsql-general@postgresql.org' > Objet : Couldn't find any tables, sequences or indices! > > > Hello, > > I use PostgreSQL 6.5.3 and it coredumped during the night... :-( > > This morning, I can't see the tables or anything in the > databases, when I do a \d in psql, I get the message > "Couldn't find any tables, sequences or indices!". > > But the file that contains the DB is NOT empty (this a > laaarge file). So I'm sure that the DB is not really empty... > But a pg_dump give me an empty dump file... :-( > > Do you have an idea to help me to fix that problem ? > > Thanks in advance ! > > --------------------------------------- > Bruno BAGUETTE - pgsql-ml@baguette.net >
Simplest solution would seem to be restore from backup taken before the crash and corruption. -- Nigel Andrews On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Bruno BAGUETTE wrote: > re-Hello, > > First, a little rectification, it's PostgreSQL 6.5.2 and not 6.5.3 as I > wrote in the last message... > > Second : I've tried doing a vacuumdb of the database but it don't > changes anything... I'm still having the message "Couldn't find any > tables, sequences or indices!". :-( > > It looks like the PostgreSQL system tables are corrupted... > > Any idea to fix that problem ? > > --------------------------------------- > Bruno BAGUETTE - pgsql-ml@baguette.net > > > -----Message d'origine----- > > De : Bruno BAGUETTE [mailto:pgsql-ml@baguette.net] > > Envoyé : mercredi 11 juin 2003 10:34 > > À : 'pgsql-general@postgresql.org' > > Objet : Couldn't find any tables, sequences or indices! > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I use PostgreSQL 6.5.3 and it coredumped during the night... :-( > > > > This morning, I can't see the tables or anything in the > > databases, when I do a \d in psql, I get the message > > "Couldn't find any tables, sequences or indices!". > > > > But the file that contains the DB is NOT empty (this a > > laaarge file). So I'm sure that the DB is not really empty... > > But a pg_dump give me an empty dump file... :-( > > > > Do you have an idea to help me to fix that problem ? > >
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Bruno BAGUETTE wrote: > > > re-Hello, > > > > First, a little rectification, it's PostgreSQL 6.5.2 and not 6.5.3 as I > > wrote in the last message... > > > > Second : I've tried doing a vacuumdb of the database but it don't > > changes anything... I'm still having the message "Couldn't find any > > tables, sequences or indices!". :-( 1. don't touch anything before making a copy of all directories on another disk 2. attempt recovery from the copy 3. search archives - I documented a recovery after hardware failure a couple of years ago I think it was 6.5.2 4. things are much easier with 7.xx you really should upgrade. Cheers Tony Grant
re-Hello, > 1. don't touch anything before making a copy of all > directories on another disk I've a tar.gz of all the pgsql directories, so it's ok ! :-) > 2. attempt recovery from the copy I've already tried to do recovery using vacuumdb, but it don't changes anything... And I can't use pg_restore because I don't have the dumps of theses DB, only the PostgreSQL files. > 3. search archives - I documented a recovery after hardware > failure a couple of years ago I think it was 6.5.2 The archives in the www.postgresql.org don't return anything about my problem with "recovery after hardware failure" or "recovery tony grant"... By the way, can you give the month/year of the message ? (That would be easier to find the message) > 4. things are much easier with 7.xx you really should upgrade. I would like to upgrade to 7.3.3 but I have first to get 6.5.2 running in order to get the possibility to start a dump and to launch the install into a PostgreSQL 7.3.3 server. Thanks really much for your help ! :-) ------------------------------------- Bruno BAGUETTE - pgsql-ml@baguette.net
Re: PostgreSQL coredump : Couldn't find any tables, sequences or indices!
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Bruno Wolff III
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On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:59:17 +0200, Bruno BAGUETTE <pgsql-ml@baguette.net> wrote: > re-Hello, > > First, a little rectification, it's PostgreSQL 6.5.2 and not 6.5.3 as I > wrote in the last message... > > Second : I've tried doing a vacuumdb of the database but it don't > changes anything... I'm still having the message "Couldn't find any > tables, sequences or indices!". :-( > > It looks like the PostgreSQL system tables are corrupted... > > Any idea to fix that problem ? Can you recover from backups? You really should upgrade to either 7.2.4 or 7.3.3.
RE : PostgreSQL coredump : Couldn't find any tables, sequences or indices!
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"Bruno BAGUETTE"
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> > It looks like the PostgreSQL system tables are corrupted... > > > > Any idea to fix that problem ? > > Can you recover from backups? In fact, it seems that there is no backup of this DB, but I've noticed when I make a vacuumdb on the database, I see all the tables names that appears on the vacuumdb output (verbose mode)... But, after that vacuumdb, if I connect using psql to the database and making \d, I'm still having the same error message : "Couldn't find any tables, sequences or indices!". Do you think that all the data is lost ? > You really should upgrade to either 7.2.4 or 7.3.3. If I success to recover theses datas, I will move them to a 7.3.3 database. In all case, I will urge the system administrator to install the 7.3.3 PostgreSQL version. Thanks really much for your help ! --------------------------------------- Bruno BAGUETTE - pgsql-ml@baguette.net
"Bruno BAGUETTE" <pgsql-ml@baguette.net> writes:
> I would like to upgrade to 7.3.3 but I have first to get 6.5.2 running
> in order to get the possibility to start a dump and to launch the
> install into a PostgreSQL 7.3.3 server.
How large is pg_log? If it's 1Gb in size or nearly that, then your
problem is that the transaction counter wrapped around. I believe that
a couple of people have gotten out of such a fix by resetting the
counter to a few hundred transactions less than 4G, giving them time to
pg_dump before it wraps again. I don't remember how to do it in such a
prehistoric version of Postgres, though. Check the archives.
regards, tom lane
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 11:41, Bruno BAGUETTE wrote: > > 3. search archives - I documented a recovery after hardware > > failure a couple of years ago I think it was 6.5.2 > > The archives in the www.postgresql.org don't return anything about my > problem with "recovery after hardware failure" or "recovery tony > grant"... By the way, can you give the month/year of the message ? (That > would be easier to find the message) Justin when was that? =:-p maybe in 2001 around juin or july Cheers Tony Grant -- www.tgds.net Library management software toolkit, redhat linux on Sony Vaio C1XD, Dreamweaver MX with Tomcat and PostgreSQL
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Bruno BAGUETTE wrote: > > > It looks like the PostgreSQL system tables are corrupted... > > > > > > Any idea to fix that problem ? > > > > Can you recover from backups? > > In fact, it seems that there is no backup of this DB, but I've noticed > when I make a vacuumdb on the database, I see all the tables names that > appears on the vacuumdb output (verbose mode)... > > But, after that vacuumdb, if I connect using psql to the database and > making \d, I'm still having the same error message : "Couldn't find any > tables, sequences or indices!". > > Do you think that all the data is lost ? > > > You really should upgrade to either 7.2.4 or 7.3.3. > > If I success to recover theses datas, I will move them to a 7.3.3 > database. In all case, I will urge the system administrator to install > the 7.3.3 PostgreSQL version. Have you tried something like 'select * from someknowntable' to see if that works? If so, then it could just be something wrong with the descriptions of the tables, but the tables are still there. I can almost remember what running 6.5.3 was like back in the day, but my memory of that version is fading fast. FYI Right now the postgresql developers are busily rushing to complete their code changes for the 7.4 code freeze / beta test, so you might want to wait til after july 1 and ask again.