I am attempting to get a handle on the corruption that caused the following error: pg_dump: SQL command failed pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: could not access status of transaction 3183024 DETAIL: could not open file "pg_clog/0003": No such file or directory pg_dump: The command was: SELECT description, classoid, objoid, objsubid FROM pg_catalog.pg_description ORDER BY classoid, objoid, objsubid I've run pg_filedump on all the files with the name = oid from: select oid,relname from pg_class where relname='pg_description'; oid | relname ------+---------------------------- 2609 | pg_description but there are no errors reported. I'm (obviously) lost here - what is the correct way to track down the appropriate file and record to point pg_filedump at to view any corruption? Robert