Re: pg_attribute file in PostgreSQL 9.0

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com> writes:
>> On 03/07/2012 09:03 AM, Lukasz Brodziak wrote:
>>> Thanks a lot I have found file I needed let's hope I will be
>>> able to fix the problem now as I cannot connect to the database
>>> because I get 'catalog is missing 1 attribute for relation 2662'
>>> which I hope to be able to repair by getting the pg_attribute
>>> file from another db.
>
>> STOP! Don't touch anything just yet. Now we know the real reason
>> for the question.
>
> ... yeah, and this is the wrong answer.  It's *exceedingly*
> unlikely that plopping in the pg_attribute file from a different
> database will accomplish anything except to make matters far
> worse.  Even if the other DB has exactly the same tables and
> exactly the same columns in those tables, it likely doesn't have
> the same OID assignments.

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Corruption

-Kevin