Re: Read db files directly

Can you get postgresql to startup? Are you trying to use pg_ctl to
start it or /etc/init.d/postgresql scripts?

Basically, you need the database up and running first. When you "psql
and pg_dump don't see those files" what errors are you actually getting?

On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 14:23, Mingzuo Shen wrote:
> Thanks Aaron.
>
> No. pg_dump, psql do not "see" those files.
> As I said, psql -l shows "nothing".
> pg_dumpall outputs nothing.
>
> strings 3476895975
>
> for example, does show a lot of text,
> some of them seem to be actual data
> that I am interested in extracting.
>
> If I create a new db and create new tables
> in the new db, then they work as usual.
>
>
>
> --- Aaron Bono <postgresql(at)aranya(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > On 7/22/06, Shen, Mingzuo <mshen(at)bcm(dot)edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I see some OS files (50+ GB total) but cannot see
> > anything in psql -l.
> > > There seem to be some big tables there.
> > > I wonder if there are some tools that would dump
> > the tables in text.
> > > or, how to make PostgreSQL "connect" to these
> > files again?
> > >
> >
> > You can dump the whole database contents with
> > pg_dump. This dumps your
> > whole database with data into a text file. Is this
> > what you mean?
> >
> >
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