Yup that's what happened. Dropped them and all is good. I really should
get a list of all of the underling files for each index and table and
see if any others are missing.
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 11:30, Tom Lane wrote:
> Dave Smith <dave.smith@candata.com> writes:
> > After a abnormal system shutdown I am trying to run a
> > vacuum full verbose ANALYZE and getting the following error.
>
> > NOTICE: Analyzing classification
> > NOTICE: RelationBuildDesc: can't open pg_temp_5821_0: No such file or
> > directory
> > NOTICE: --Relation pg_temp_5821_0--
> > ERROR: _mdfd_getrelnfd: cannot open relation pg_temp_5821_0: No such
> > file or directory
>
> You should be able to DROP that table even though it doesn't have an
> underlying file. My guess is that you are running atop a non-crash-safe
> filesystem and it lost the directory entry for the just-created file.
> You might want to think about switching to a journaling file system.
>
> regards, tom lane
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