"Justin Pasher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perfect. Just was I was looking for. So is it safe to actually run an update > on the pg_catalog.pg_type.typowner column to change the user id from 101 to > another existing user id without causing any other database weirdness?
Should work. In recent PG versions you would need to worry about pg_shdepend entries too, but if you had pg_shdepend you would not have been able to get into this state in the first place (in theory anyway). Some general suggestions about manual changes to the system catalogs: Reasonable prudence would suggest making the change inside a BEGIN block and looking around for problems before you COMMIT. If you're really paranoid, you could first stop the postmaster and take a plain tarball backup of the PGDATA directory tree, which would certainly let you get back to where you were if things go horribly wrong. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster