Re: emergency outage requiring database restart

Merlin Moncure wrote:

> castaging=# CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW vw_ApartmentSample AS
> castaging-#   SELECT ...
> ERROR:  42809: "pg_cast_oid_index" is an index
> LINE 11:   FROM ApartmentSample s
>                 ^
> LOCATION:  heap_openrv_extended, heapam.c:1304
> 
> should I be restoring from backups?

It's pretty clear to me that you've got catalog corruption here.  You
can try to fix things manually as they emerge, but that sounds like a
fool's errand.

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