My nightly dump of one of my databases started failing Wednesday night and
I'm not sure what is going on.  When I pg_dump this one database (others on
this machine are fine) I get this output from pg_dump

--  last builtin oid is 17216 
--  reading user-defined types 
--  reading user-defined functions 
--  reading user-defined aggregates 
--  reading user-defined operators 
--  reading user-defined tables 
--  finding Triggers for relation: 'jobs' 
[snip] ...
--  finding DEFAULT expression for attr: 'id' 
--  finding the attrs and types for table: 'testassignments' 
--  finding DEFAULT expression for attr: 'id' 
--  finding DEFAULT expression for attr: 'standby' 
--  finding the attrs and types for table: 'pagedata' 
--  finding DEFAULT expression for attr: 'id' 
--  flagging inherited attributes in subtables 
--  dumping out database comment 
--  dumping out user-defined types 
--  dumping out tables 
--  dumping out user-defined procedural languages 
--  dumping out user-defined functions 
failed sanity check, type with oid 101993741 was not found

relevant info: pg7.0.2 on redhat 6.1, 700MHz Athlon, 256M, linux software
mirror hard drives.

btw: This is a completely different server at a different location from the
one that was having problems two weeks ago and thank you all for the help
then, I don't think I emailed a thank you, it was a busy day.

Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:33:19 -0500 
Matthew <matt@ctlno.com>
More Problems
Matthew <matt@ctlno.com> writes:
> --  dumping out user-defined functions 
> failed sanity check, type with oid 101993741 was not found

Looks like you have a function that refers to a since-deleted type.
You'll need to find and drop the function (which may mean manually
deleting its pg_proc row, since there's no way to name the function
to DROP FUNCTION if one of its parameters is a now-unknown type).

Another possibility is that the type still exists but you deleted its
owning user from pg_shadow; that will confuse pg_dump too.  In that
case you can just create a new user with the same usesysid, or you can
update the type's typowner field in pg_type to refer to some existing
user.

Try "select * from pg_type where oid = 101993741" to figure out which
situation applies ...

			regards, tom lane

Fri, 06 Apr 2001 14:51:03 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: More Problems 