Henrik Farre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just been choosen as sys adm on a small network. We have a old Sun Ultra
> 1 running postgresql 7.1.3. I would like to migrate the database to a new
> machine and a newer version of postgresql. But when I run the pg_dumpall
> command I get the followering error, after a while:
> WARNING: owner of type 'counter' appears to be invalid
> dumpRules(): SELECT failed for rules associated with table "counter".
> Explanation from backend: 'pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel
> unexpectedly.
It sounds like you have a badly corrupted database :-(. However, the
pg_dump message is of little help in delving further than that. What
shows up in the postmaster log? If the backend is dumping core, can
you get a stack trace?
regards, tom lane
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