Re: pg_dumpall problem - duplicated users

Tom Lane napisał(a):

> Bartosz Nowak <grubby@go2.pl> writes:
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>> postgres=> select ctid,xmin,xmax,cmin,xmax,* from pg_shadow where
>> usename = 'postgres';
>> ctid  |    xmin    | xmax  | cmin  | xmax  | usename  | usesysid |
>> usecreatedb | usesuper | usecatupd |
>> passwd                | valuntil | useconfig
>>
--------+------------+-------+-------+-------+----------+----------+-------------+----------+-----------+-------------------------------------+----------+-----------

>>
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>> (0,1) |          1 | 50469 | 50469 | 50469 | postgres |        1 |
>> t           | t        | t
>> |                                     |          |
>> (1,25) | 2559800612 |     0 |     0 |     0 | postgres |        1 |
>> t           | t        | t         |
>> md5c084502ed11efa9d3d96d29717a5e555 |          |
>> (2 rows)
>>
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> Hmm --- clearly, that second xmin is corrupt.  I'd venture that this
> is the result of a rolled-back (crashed?) ALTER USER SET PASSWORD
> operation, in which somehow the new tuple's xmin got clobbered ... and
> more than likely, its XMIN_COMMITTED bit got set at the same time.
>
> You could manually delete either row, probably better to zap the second
> one:
>     delete from pg_shadow where ctid = '(1,25)';
> and then things should be OK.  A dump and reload wouldn't be a bad idea
> though, since there may be other corruption elsewhere that you haven't
> noticed yet.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
>
Heh... i wish it was that easy - i tried it already :] When i delete the
'second' postgres user (with passwd set) PG is acting like there is no
postgres account at all:

pg_dumpall -i -U mw > test.sql
pg_dump: SQL command failed
pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR:  pg_class_aclcheck: invalid
user id 1
pg_dump: The command was: SELECT (SELECT usename FROM pg_user WHERE
usesysid = datdba) as dba, pg_encoding_to_char(encoding) as encoding,
datpath FROM pg_database WHERE datname = 'alibi'
pg_dumpall: pg_dump failed on database "alibi", exiting

pg_dumpall -i -U postgres > test.sql
pg_dumpall: could not connect to database "template1": FATAL:  user
"postgres" does not exist

psql -U postgres
psql: FATAL:  user "postgres" does not exist

And i cannot modify row of 'first' postgres user (without passwd set)
with or without 'second' present:

mw=> delete from pg_shadow where ctid = '(0,1)' ;
DELETE 0

mw=> update pg_catalog.pg_shadow set passwd='test' where
usename='postgres' and ctid = '(0,1)';
UPDATE 0

So further help will be welcomed :) And thank U for trying to help me.

Greetings,
Bartek