Sebastien Boisvert <sebastienboisvert@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > We've received a client's database which was giving errors and refusing to be backed up; at this point we do not know what's happened to the database to corrupt it (likely a hardware or power failure, etc.) > The error that is being given when trying to do selects on the affected table or doing a pg_dump is: > ERROR: invalid attribute number 32533 for largedata Some poking through the source code finds only one match for that error message, which is in relcache.c. It looks like you have a row in pg_attribute that claims to belong to that relation, but has attnum 32533. It would be interesting to see the results for select * from pg_attribute where attrelid = 'largedata'::regclass What PG version is this exactly, on what platform? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
