Re: Tom, I've got an emergency - please help me

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Henrik Steffen <steffen(at)city-map(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pg <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Tom, I've got an emergency - please help me
Date: 2002-07-15 17:50:12
Message-ID: 200207151750.g6FHoCM17745@candle.pha.pa.us
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Henrik Steffen wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> thanks for your reply
>
> > You could try reindexing the system tables, but I don't have a lot of
> > hope for that. See the REINDEX man page.
>
> I allready tried this ... didn't work out.
>
> OK - I am sorry, but the ECC-RAM I ordered didn't run in the old server
> so I had to order a new server as fast as possible... it's going to run
> in a about 20-30 minutes hopefully....
>
> How can I start postgres in stand-alone mode with "-o -P" as you wrote
> and then do a pg_dump ? Or did I get you wrong?

postgres -o -P does look valuable:

postmaster -o -P -D ...

That may help.

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