On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 at 15:39, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.a...@cybertec.at> wrote:

> On Fri, 2024-03-22 at 13:41 +0530, Daulat wrote:
> > We are unable to take the backup of our database. While taking backup we
> are getting the same error.
> >
> > psql: error: connection to server at "localhost" (::1), port 5014
> failed: FATAL:  pg_attribute catalog is missing 1 attribute(s) for relation
> OID 2662
>
> Then you got severe data corruption.  This is the index
> "pg_class_oid_index",
> and corrupted metadata make recovery difficult.
>
> If I were you, I would seek professional help.
> But first, stop working with this database immediately.
> Stop the server and take a backup of all the files in the data
> directory.


Do we have an option that op has a replica running and the bug has not
propagated to the replica , and the op can failover/ take a backup off the
replica.
i mean i could simulate a corruption of pg_catalog on my local vm using dd,
but ofc that is hardware level corruption that did not propagate to the
replica, so i could failover and backup from the replica just fine.
PS : if the bug propagates to the replica or does corruption on the replica
too, then idk the solution. if you could login and get the oid of the
objects (and have field types ready externally), then you can run a
pg_filedump and copy the data.
First contact with the pg_filedump - Highgo Software Inc.
<https://www.highgo.ca/2021/07/14/first-contact-with-the-pg_filedump/>

i tried an example, but i had a lot of info for that.
<https://www.highgo.ca/2021/07/14/first-contact-with-the-pg_filedump/>corruption
demo for blogs. (github.com)
<https://gist.github.com/cabecada/8024d98024559e9fc97ccfcb5324c09f>  (if
you dont understand this, then ignore)


> Vijay
>
LinkedIn - Vijaykumar Jain <https://www.linkedin.com/in/vijaykumarjain/>

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