Lonni Friedman <lfriedman(at)vasoftware(dot)com> writes:
> So, i took down the DB, started it in standalone, and ran:
> reindex INDEX pg_toast_302323_idx
For a user table you didn't really need to take down the DB.
> but according to the REINDEX dox, i should see a 'REINDEX' if all is
> well, and i never do, i'm just dumped back to another backend> prompt.
That is a user-interface detail that is correct when running psql,
but I don't think a standalone backend bothers with such fine points.
If it didn't spit up an error message then it was happy.
The real question is did pg_dump get any better after you did this?
regards, tom lane