Re: Cache lookup failed for relation, when trying to DROP

Tom Lane wrote:
> Mark Gibson <gibsonm@cromwell.co.uk> writes:
>
>>I kept getting the following error:
>>ERROR:  cache lookup failed for relation 4667548
>
>
> This implies that something someplace still has a link to the table with
> that OID.  You could do "\set VERBOSITY verbose" so that the code
> location the error occurs at gets reported; that might be enough
> information to guess what sort of thing is linking to the table.
> Or you could just dig through the system catalogs looking for 4667548
> in an OID column that links to pg_class.


"\set VERBOSITY verbose" gave me the following:

ERROR:  XX000: cache lookup failed for relation 4667548
LOCATION:  getRelationDescription, dependency.c:1755


and...

After sticking 4667548 everywhere an oid can be stuck, I've found an
entry in the pg_rewrite table.
It's from a rule I added myself, but I dropped it manually, strange that
is still lurking around.

So, I tried deleting the offending entries from pg_rewrite, and now get:

ERROR:  XX000: could not find tuple for rule 5173132
LOCATION:  getObjectDescription, dependency.c:1669

I'm guessing I'm gonna have to route through pg_catalog for this and
delete all deps manually, but it this going to be safe?
Would I be better off dumping and restoring the whole database?

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Mark Gibson <gibsonm |AT| cromwell |DOT| co |DOT| uk>
Web Developer & Database Admin
Cromwell Tools Ltd.
Leicester, England.