psql: FATAL 1: Index pg_class_relname_index is not a btree

I came in this morning to find my network monitor reporting a problem
with one of our databases.

The error was:

FATAL 1:  Index pg_class_relname_index is not a btree

I was able to access all the other databases, so I dumped them each
(pg_dumpall conects first to template1, so that was not an option).

Then I shut down and restarted the database. It came back up clean. But
when I tried to do pg_dumpall on that, there were no tables present.
Sure enough, a select on pg_database revealed only one -- template1.

I can connect to the other database:

template1=> select * from pg_database;
  datname  | datdba | encoding |  datpath
-----------+--------+----------+-----------
 template1 |  10002 |        0 | template1
(1 row)

template1=> \connect biobase
You are now connected to database biobase.
biobase=>

But I can't do anything.

I should also note that the data directory is a symlink - the OS was
updraded over the weekend onto a new disk. The database directory itself
was then mounted from the old disk. Not sure this is relevant though -
the DB was fine for more than 48 hours after the switchover.

This is RedHat Linux 6.2 with the PostgreSQL 7.0.2-2 RPM. If the
hardware is relevant, it is a dual processor (Intel Xeon) machine -- the
OS now lives on an IDE drive, while the data is on a SCSI drive. Prior
to Saturday, the OS and data both lived on the SCSI drive, and the OS
was RedHat 6.0 -- the database has been 7.0.2 for some time now, that
was not upgraded over the weekend (although the bits were freshened, the
version is exactly the same).

Has anyone seen this before? Any ideas?


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