From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: James Farrugia <james.farrugia@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Orphan TOAST object
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 13:26:03 -0400
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"James Farrugia" <james.farrugia@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm running 8.2.1.
You really need to update to 8.2.latest. There are several known
data-corruption problems in 8.2.1, and it seems possible that one of
them ate the pg_depend row you needed.
> I cleanly forgot about pg_depend!
> Even after re-indexing I wasn't able to find an entry in pg_depend having
> the TOAST's OID. I guess that by creating foo again and linking
> pg_toast_xxx with foo in pg_depend by hand i can make it go away.
Yeah, that's probably the cleanest recovery strategy.
regards, tom lane
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