Did some searching, and figured/concluded that things are pretty much hosed ... the last backup is from June (clients machine, not ours), but before I suggest going back to that backup, I want to make sure that I haven't overlooked anything ...
What the client did was a 'delete from pg_attribute where ... ' ...
The database is a 7.4.2 one ... my first thought was one of the older standbys ... rebuild the schema and move the data files into place over top of that ... but of course, 7.3 and beyond are OID based vs name based files, so that doesn't work, unless there is some way of figuring out which file in the old directory corresponds to while oid-file, and without beign able to get into the database to read the system files, thats a wee bit difficult ...
Next, figured to try and get in via STAND-ALONE, since I've previously dump'd data that way, to reload it ... course, that doesn't work, since I still need to be able to read the system tables, which is where this problem stems from ...
I'm still searching the 'net to see if there is somethign that I've overlooked ... but everything so far is drawing a deadend ... can someone suggest a web page I should read, a tool I could use, or something, to get the data out of this, that I'm not finding? Or some way of 'fixing' relid 16396? :)
Thanks ...
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