From: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> |
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To: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
Cc: | Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Unable to create tables... |
Date: | 1999-08-06 20:00:19 |
Message-ID: | 3.0.1.32.19990806130019.00699acc@mail.pacifier.com |
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At 03:53 PM 8/6/99 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
>Don Baccus wrote:
>> Obviously, some table contents somewhere must be messed
>> up. Any ideas?
>
>Ooooo....
>
>If this were happening to me, I'd probably stop postmaster, rename the
>PGDATA tree to something else, initdb, start postmaster, restore from
>the last good dump, stop postmaster, copy back the user database dirs
>under PGDATA, restart postmaster, VACUUM all tables -- on the production
>machine, if that is where the problems are. Then, I'd pull that PGDATA
>binary backup over to a development workstation, start up a postmaster
>pointing to it, and do a post-mortem, checking all system tables for
>their contents, running vacuum, et al (all the while keeping a good copy
>of the old PGDATA tree -- just in case something blows up).
I decided awhile back to punt and rebuild.
>Obviously, some system catalog somewhere is getting farkled -- Don, I'm
>assuming that you are vacuuming often.
Nightly, after dumping.
- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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