> "Lane, Tom" <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Ugh. Does it work if you do > > export PGOPTIONS="--ignore_system_indexes=1" > > first? If so, the problem would evidently be corruption of > the indexes for pg_attribute, specifically > pg_attribute_relid_attnum_index. It seems pretty suspicious > that lightning would strike twice in the same place ... > > regards, tom lane > I tried that, but unfortunately pg_dump still fails to run and the error message is identical to previous attempts. Any suggestions for additional logging we might turn on to help determine the cause of this issue? Our current logging setup uses the default postgresql.conf setup with the following changes to the logging section: log_line_prefix='%t %p %u %h ' log_connections=on Thanks, Brendan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster