Yup that's what happened. Dropped them and all is good. I really should
get a list of all of the underling files for each index and table and
see if any others are missing. 

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 11:30, Tom Lane wrote:
> Dave Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > After a abnormal system shutdown I am trying to run a 
> > vacuum full verbose ANALYZE and getting the following error.
> 
> > NOTICE:  Analyzing classification
> > NOTICE:  RelationBuildDesc: can't open pg_temp_5821_0: No such file or
> > directory
> > NOTICE:  --Relation pg_temp_5821_0--
> > ERROR:  _mdfd_getrelnfd: cannot open relation pg_temp_5821_0: No such
> > file or directory
> 
> You should be able to DROP that table even though it doesn't have an
> underlying file.  My guess is that you are running atop a non-crash-safe
> filesystem and it lost the directory entry for the just-created file.
> You might want to think about switching to a journaling file system.
> 
>                       regards, tom lane
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Dave Smith
CANdata Systems Ltd
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