Re: Relation 'pg_user' does not exist

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:03:05PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Matt Beauregard <matt(at)designscape(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> >>>> NOTICE: mdopen: couldn't open pg_user: No such file or directory
> >>
> >> This is strange in itself. There should be an (empty) file named
> >> pg_user in your $PGDATA/base/template1 directory --- is there?
> >> What about pg_views?
>
> > Neither are there.
>
> Hmm. *Something's* been tromping on your database, then. Hard to tell
> what happened from the information at hand ... but I'll bet the
> corrupted index on pg_class is related somehow.
>
> Since these are only views, the datafiles underlying them would be empty
> anyway --- so you can recreate the datafiles just by doing
> "touch $PGDATA/base/template1/pg_user" etc.

I've touched pg_user and pg_group but the db still won't find them.
Is it normal to not be able to create things beginning with pg_ inside
template1, or has template1 lost its magic?

> You could probably rebuild the corrupted index using REINDEX. I haven't
> had to do that myself so I'm not sure about the procedure.

I had a go at that but it doesn't seem to have fixed things.

> I'd definitely recommend a full dump, initdb, restore once you have
> things working well enough to allow a dump. Whatever happened here,
> you probably haven't seen all the effects yet :-(

Is there any way to get pg_dump to dump the data but nothing else?
The databases in their current state work fine for normal
select/insert/update, just not for dumping.

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