Re: Is it possible to recover the schema from the raw files?

Hello Karsten,

Thank you.

> Like replacing (some of) the pg_* containing raw files with
> those from an uncorrupted database (having been suggested
> earlier this year) which may work if the corrupted blocks in
> pg_* only affect data actually describing _that_ database
> rather than establishing relationships not unique to this
> database (say, encodings, default operators, ...). If those
> can be replaced and there is still corruption in some parts
> describing the local schema then it may work to apply
> zero_damaged_pages, pg_resetxlog, and similar tools in order
> to make some of the schema dumpable.

This is actually a very interesting idea.

Kind regards,

Tomas