I'm having a problem with Postgres 7.4 on RHEL 4 (Nahant Update 8). It seems that pg_database disappeared some time ago (I think before my oldest backups, unfortunately). I searched and found some mention of REINDEX but I'm not sure if I am using it correctly since this is a system catalog. I tried this: postgres -P -D /usr/local/databases/pgsql/data pg_database FATAL: database "pg_database" does not exist I also tried connecting to a working database to run the command: backend> REINDEX DATABASE pg_database ERROR: can only reindex the currently open database However, I have at least one working database: postgres -P -D /var/lib/pgsql/data pg_bmap_repo POSTGRES backend interactive interface $Revision: 1.375.2.5 $ $Date: 2005/12/14 17:07:00 $ backend> select * from fMRIStudy; 1: _oid (typeid = 23, len = 4, typmod = -1, byval = t) 2: imaging_study (typeid = 23, len = 4, typmod = -1, byval = t) 3: function (typeid = 1043, len = -1, typmod = 24, byval = f) 4: mrseries (typeid = 23, len = 4, typmod = -1, byval = t) 5: description (typeid = 1043, len = -1, typmod = 104, byval = f) Thanks for any help! -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin