Re: [SQL] system view corrupted, i get "unexpected right parenthesis" for many system tables.

2006-01-09 Thread David Ford
that's ok, i found a working solution with 8.0.5 +pg-hier (8.0.1 wouldn't work + or -pg-hier), so i got things dumped, upgraded, and running.  thank you to you and the guys on #postgresql very much for your assistance :) davidOn 1/9/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [SQL] system view corrupted, i get "unexpected right parenthesis" for many system tables.

2006-01-09 Thread Tom Lane
David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i've tried with and without the hier patch and neither seems to work. I was afraid of that: you've got some views created with the patch installed and some with it not installed. > i have a few options left to try but i might be reduced to stitching togeth

Re: [SQL] system view corrupted, i get "unexpected right parenthesis" for many system tables.

2006-01-09 Thread David Ford
you are correct and we've gone down that road.  i build my db with 8.0.1, and i've upgraded through to 8.0.5 as time went by and i never noticed an issue with it until i went to bump to 8.1 today.i've tried with and without the hier patch and neither seems to work.  i have a few options left to try

Re: [SQL] system view corrupted, i get "unexpected right parenthesis" for many system tables.

2006-01-09 Thread Tom Lane
David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i encountered this when trying to do a pg_dumpall in preparation for moving > from 8.0 to 8.1. Would it be too far off to guess that you're running Gentoo? This looks like ye olde problem with that hierarchical-queries patch that they push on people. Eith

[SQL] system view corrupted, i get "unexpected right parenthesis" for many system tables.

2006-01-09 Thread David Ford
i encountered this when trying to do a pg_dumpall in preparation for moving from 8.0 to 8.1.Jaymale ~ # pg_dump -U postgres -d administration > psql-dbs.jan2006.dumppg_dump: SQL command failedpg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR:  unexpected right parenthesis pg_dump: The command was: SELECT t