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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Cannot drop role
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:48:50 -0300
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Steven Hirsch wrote:

> At this point I suspect there's something corrupted in the system catalog.

Yes, clearly.

> How can I find the table entry (or entries) that reference that identifier?
> The fact that the message is issued suggests a link somewhere but I cannot
> locate it.

Look in pg_shdepend.  Probably somebody deleted rows from pg_default_acl
(and who knows what else) rather than using DDL commands, which is what
they should have done.

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Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services


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