Hi Tom,
Thank you for the very quick response. I'll let Robin followup on
this for tonight, as I'm heading to bed after a very long day.
On 4 Jul, 2006, at 22:12, Tom Lane wrote:
Joseph Kiniry <kiniry@xxxxxxx> writes:
As I said above, I have re-examined, and executed if necessary, by
hand, all sql commands in initdb and postgres.bki, but it seems that
pg_catalog is still screwed up. Attempting to dump, or perform
several other actions results in failures of the form:
ERROR: 42P01: relation "pg_user" does not exist
LOCATION: RangeVarGetRelid, namespace.c:193
STATEMENT: SELECT (SELECT usename FROM pg_user WHERE usesysid =
datdba) as dba\
, pg_encoding_to_char(encoding) as encoding, datpath FROM pg_database
WHERE dat\
name = 'gforge'
So why can I see pg_user and yet pg_dump fails?
gforge=# select * from pg_user;
[ works ]
Hmm ... you manually recreated the pg_user view you say? I wonder if
you mistakenly put it in the public schema instead of pg_catalog.
The quoted command from pg_dump is done after issuing
set search_path = pg_catalog;
so that nothing user-created will accidentally mess it up. If you
can still manually select from pg_user after issuing that same SET
command, then something is really seriously strange ...
I did notice the above command and executed it by hand. But as to
whether I did it all at the right time, in the right order, to ensure
that everything is in the right schemas... :)
If you find that indeed pg_user is in public, drop it there and
re-create it in pg_catalog. You'll need to be superuser to do
that but I don't think it'll require any more pushups than that.
We'll double-check this.
regards, tom lane
Thanks again for the pointer,
Joe
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Joseph Kiniry
School of Computer Science and Informatics
UCD Dublin
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