Re: Could not open relation with OID (table partitioning issue?)

At 09:22 AM 11/15/2010, mark wrote:
>Hi all
>
>Running Postgres 8.3.7
>
>Are there any known issues with table partitioning and transactions having a child partition getting removed out from
underrunning queries? 
>
>
>I got an error in my log about not being able to open a relation with OID XXXXX from a SELECT statement that ran about
thesame time that a cron job may have removed some of the older table partitions. (that may or may not have been
visibleto select query) 
>
>Right now I have been checking but I can’t find anything wrong with the database so it doesn’t look like I have any db
corruptionissues or the like currently.  there is some hate in the logs about it for a while and then the database was
restarted. 
>
>My best guess is that a the clean up of old partitions yanked a table out from view…. Kind of like when you run a \d
atthe same time a table is dropped.  
>
>Thoughts? Comments? Ideas ?

I started seeing these frightening messages a couple of months ago:

   pg_dump: ERROR:  could not open relation with OID 2196359751
   pg_dump: SQL command to dump the contents of table "xyz" failed: PQendcopy() failed.
   pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR:  could not open relation with OID 2196359751
   pg_dump: The command was: COPY public.xyz ({various_field_names}) TO stdout;

and the error was causing a daily database backup routine to fail.  Because the problem was too far beyond my ability
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normalin a day or two.  Mr. Heikens isolated the one corrupted data record, created a new table, and replaced the
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