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Re: Large Database \d: ERROR: cache lookup failed for relation ...


  • From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • To: "Thomas F. O'Connell" <tf(at)o(dot)ptimized(dot)com>
  • Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: Large Database \d: ERROR: cache lookup failed for relation ...
  • Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:39:12 -0400
  • Message-id: <20669(dot)1180039152(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>

"Thomas F. O'Connell" <tf(at)o(dot)ptimized(dot)com> writes:
> I'm dealing with a database where there are ~150,000 rows in  
> information_schema.tables. I just tried to do a \d, and it came back  
> with this:

> ERROR:  cache lookup failed for relation [oid]

> Is this indicative of corruption, or is it possibly a resource issue?

It'd not be unexpected if other transactions were concurrently dropping
tables.  If it's persistent (with the same OID mentioned) then you need
to worry.

			regards, tom lane



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