Re: Re: ERROR while creating new user - could not open relation mapping file global/pg_filenode.map

Tom Lane wrote:
> Sribeiro  writes:
> > Anyone has any idea what i need to do fix this issue?
> 
> You don't have an up-to-date backup, eh?
> 
> You might be able to fix this by doing a fresh initdb (targeting some
> other location for the data directory, of course, but being careful
> to use the exact same Postgres version) and then copying the
> global/pg_filenode.map file out of that data directory and into your
> broken one.  This would only work if you've never done a VACUUM FULL on
> any of the shared catalogs in the existing data directory, so it's far
> from guaranteed to work; but it's worth a try.

It's relatively easy to identify the files corresponding to each
catalog, even when they have been mapped; just pg_filedump the files
until you find ones that match the expected number of attributes, and
disambiguate based on which attributes have HEAP_VARWIDTH and such.
Then you just need to cp the right files to the default names using the
default map created in the freshly initdb'd cluster.

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