On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Darren Reed <
darrenr+postgres@fastmail.net> wrote:
Inserts into my table started generating an error message (see below),
and there was a log message that suggested I reindex.
postgres seems to start and stop ok, but no operations on the tables
seem to work.
l# /usr/pkg/bin/pg_dump -s -U postgres
pg_dump: failed sanity check, parent table OID 16401 of pg_rewrite entry
OID 16403 not found
Is this recoverable without using a backup?
Looks like to me corrupted system catalog!
I guess when you dropped the table it didn't delete the record from pg_rewrite was not deleted when the parent table was dropped. So you can try doing something:
delete from pg_rewrite where oid = 16403;
And see if this can fix the problem..
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Shoaib Mir
Fujitsu Australia Software Technology
shoaibm[@]fast.fujitsu.com.au