[ADMIN] pg_dumpall failure - could not access status of transaction

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Leftwich
I am attempting to get a handle on the corruption that caused the following error: pg_dump: SQL command failed pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: could not access status of transaction 3183024 DETAIL: could not open file pg_clog/0003: No such file or directory pg_dump: The command was:

Re: [ADMIN] pg_dumpall failure - could not access status of transaction

2007-02-02 Thread Robert Leftwich
I wrote: I am attempting to get a handle on the corruption that caused the following error... After a bit more digging I found a couple of old messages that helped - http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2004-01/msg00258.php The last tuple that is valid is (3, 123) and looking at record 3

Re: [ADMIN] pg_dumpall failure - could not access status of transaction

2007-02-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Robert Leftwich wrote: pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: could not access status of transaction 3183024 DETAIL: could not open file pg_clog/0003: No such file or directory If your database system has already experienced on the order of 3183024 transactions, then you should wonder

Re: [ADMIN] pg_dumpall failure - could not access status of transaction

2007-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:21:47 -0500, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Also, can you show us the pg_filedump output for the page of pg_description you think is trashed? I find -i -f options give the most useful output usually. [ dump snipped ] Yeah,