On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 08:43:26AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Bruno Cortes wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was trying to make a dump from a database in postgresql 7.4.2-1. I was > > enable to do so because of a cache lookup problem. > > To solve it, I enter the database as superuser and execute VACUUM ALL. > > This was even worse than the previous error. Right now I cannot enter > > the database neither make a dump. When I execute a command such as "psql > > -U postgres center-01" I get the error: > > psql: FATAL: catalog is missing 10 attribute(s) for relid 1262 > > Sounds very much like you haven't been doing the required vacuum on all > system catalogs. Look for "transaction Xid wraparound" for possible > suggestions. For example look at > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-05/msg00079.php Could this also be due to data corruption? From my limited understanding of the relevant code in backend/utils/cache/relcache.c it seems this error indicates that there's a mismatch between the number of columns found in a tuple and what's supposed to be there according to the catalog tables... -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
