Re: pg_dump: schema with OID 16396 does not exist

Hi Tom,

deleted entry from pg_conversion. Problem solved. pg_dump works again.

Thanks,
Robert

Tom Lane wrote:

>>>Look through the system catalogs to find the object(s) that claim to be
>>>in that namespace, and then tell us what they are and their history.
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>>Found it in pg_conversion:
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>>mps_dev=#  select * from pg_conversion where connamespace = 16396;
>>       conname       | connamespace | conowner | conforencoding |
>>contoencoding |      conproc      | condefault
>>---------------------+--------------+----------+----------------+---------------+-------------------+------------
>> iso_8859_1_to_utf_8 |        16396 |    16389 |              8
>>|             6 | iso8859_1_to_utf8 | t
>>(1 row)
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>Ah.  This is a known bug: CREATE CONVERSION neglected to enter a dependency
>from the new conversion to its namespace, hence a DROP SCHEMA on the
>namespace would not remove the pg_conversion entry.  This is fixed in
>HEAD but hasn't been back-patched for some reason --- I'll go deal with
>that now.
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>In the meantime I'd suggest a manual DROP CONVERSION to clean up ...
>hmm ... except you probably can't name that conversion anymore in SQL,
>what with it not having a schema.  I think it would work well enough to
>just DELETE the specific row in pg_conversion.
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>            regards, tom lane
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