Robert Mosher <mosher@andrews.edu> writes:
> So no suggestions to recover things, or at least only kill the one table,
> and not the entire database?
You should be able to drop the broken table after doing
touch $PGDATA/base/yourdb/yourtable
(make the obvious substitutions...) Your immediate problem is you
have a pg_class entry for a table and no underlying file to match.
regards, tom lane