pg_dump Backup on 7.0.3 - Sanity error?

Started by G. Anthony Reinaover 24 years ago3 messages
#1G. Anthony Reina
reina@nsi.edu

I'm trying to use pg_dump to backup my tables one at a time from
Postgres 7.0.3 (I'll upgrade to 7.1 in a few weeks). I'm getting a
strange error that I've never encountered before.

The backup call is: pg_dump db01 -t cell | gzip > cell.backup.gz

The error is : failed sanity check, table ro_ellipse was not found

However, I wasn't even accessing table ro_ellipse. Plus, I've verified
that the table does exist and appears fine (I can select data from it).
I vacuumed the db and even restarted the postmaster, but I still get
this weird warning.

Anyone seen this before or know if this is a problem?

Thanks.
-Tony

Postgres 7.0.3 running on RH Linux 6.2 (Zoot), Pentium III/400 MHz, 512
Meg RAM

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: G. Anthony Reina (#1)
Re: pg_dump Backup on 7.0.3 - Sanity error?

"G. Anthony Reina" <reina@nsi.edu> writes:

I'm trying to use pg_dump to backup my tables one at a time from
Postgres 7.0.3 (I'll upgrade to 7.1 in a few weeks). I'm getting a
strange error that I've never encountered before.
The error is : failed sanity check, table ro_ellipse was not found

Most likely, you removed the user that owned ro_ellipse. Create a
user with the same usesysid shown as ro_ellipse's relowner, or else
change the relowner field to point at an extant user.

I believe 7.1's pg_dump copes with this sort of thing more gracefully...

regards, tom lane

#3G. Anthony Reina
reina@nsi.edu
In reply to: G. Anthony Reina (#1)
Re: pg_dump Backup on 7.0.3 - Sanity error?

Tom Lane wrote:

Most likely, you removed the user that owned ro_ellipse. Create a
user with the same usesysid shown as ro_ellipse's relowner, or else
change the relowner field to point at an extant user.

I believe 7.1's pg_dump copes with this sort of thing more gracefully...

regards, tom lane

Yes. I did delete that user. Thanks Tom. That makes sense.

-Tony