Re: Can't open Postgres at all!!!

I did setenv PGOPTIONS "-P" and restarted the database, and still get
ERROR: could not open relation 1663/16390/2662

I'm going to try to restore from a previous copy. Any other ideas?

Thanks
Jaime

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:06 AM
To: Silvela, Jaime (Exchange)
Cc: pgsql-general
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Can't open Postgres at all!!!

"Silvela, Jaime \(Exchange\)" <JSilvela(at)Bear(dot)com> writes:
> I just came back this morning after doing a REINDEX of pg_class
> Nothing is working. I try to REINDEX pg_class and it complains
> ERROR: could not open relation 1663/16390/2662: No such file or
> directory

If the index entries for the system catalogs themselves are hosed,
you may have to start the session with PGOPTIONS="-P" (to disable
trusting system indexes) in order to do REINDEX successfully.

However, there is zero point in doing any repair work until you have a
stable hardware platform to do it on, so I'd get after the hardware
problem first. The longer you run the database with the current
degree of instability, the more likely you are to have some corruption
in table pages rather than index pages ... and a simple REINDEX won't
get you out of that.

regards, tom lane

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