Subject: Why dos select work when pg_dump fails?
From: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane)
Date: 11/29/2007 10:20:56 AM
Darren Reed <darrenr+postgres@fastmail.net> writes:
> For whatever reason, I'm back dealing with corrupted tables but
> curiously while this fails:
> pg_dump -U postgres -a -t table -f /data/table.dump
> this works:
> psql -U postgres -A -o /data/table.dump -c "SELECT * FROM table;"
pg_dump is evidently failing while trying to get the definitions
of that table's indexes. Does "\d table" work?
regards, tom lane
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