Joseph Kiniry <kiniry@xxxxxxx> writes: > I'm currently blocked on the system catalog schema "pg_catalog"; > whence is it initialized? That row in pg_namespace is missing, you mean? That's very odd ... what rows do you see in pg_namespace? That should be loaded as part of the basic bootstrap operation, and if basic bootstrap had failed you'd definitely not have failed to notice ;-) > I have looked though all initdb-related > scripts, SQL files, and BKI files and have found several references to > pg_catalog, but I have not found its definition/initialization. The definition/initialization is basically driven from macros in src/include/catalog/pg_namespace.h; in particular all the rows defined by DATA macros in that file should have been created during bootstrap. You might look in the .bki file to verify that there is a section creating and loading pg_namespace. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match