Re: getting a error message when creating temporary table

Evan Walter <ewalter(at)decisionanalyst(dot)com> writes:
> Thanks for the replies, sorry for not giving more details/background.

> The directory is global/26745

OK, so try

select relname from pg_class where relisshared and pg_relation_filenode(oid) = 26745;

That should tell you which table or index is busted.

> It is version 9.1.9
> os is ubuntu on an Amazon ec2 server

Um. AWS is, AFAIK, pretty much guaranteed to lose your data eventually.
It's a great compute service if you can afford to have nodes fail now
and then ... but probably not the best substrate for a database. If
you have to use it for that, you *must* have good backup and replication
strategies in place.

regards, tom lane