On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:05:57PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> You might be able to get past this by starting a standalone postgres
> with the -P command-line option (ignore system indexes). If so, try
> "select relname, relfilenode from pg_class". With luck that will give
> you a list of which file name is needed for each table. I'd not counsel
> trying to do more than that in the standalone backend until you've
> gotten at least the tables put back together.
>
The standalone backend errors out with:
FATAL 1: _mdfd_getrelnfd: cannot open relation pg_trigger: No such file or
directory
I suspect my troubles may be more severe than just a missing index... My
week-old backups are starting to look more and more attractive.
Any other hints?
Thanks.
-Brian