"John J. Urbaniak" <jjurban@attglobal.net> writes:
>> Hm? Then how did you get as far as having vacuumdb produce that error?
> Sorry. I can start the server, but I can't connect to the database.
That doesn't make any sense either, unless you have more corruption than
the previous message indicated. The error you showed was something that
would only occur on an attempt to access a user table.
Maybe you have something in a .psqlrc file that is doing something extra
when you try to connect?
regards, tom lane