Re: Is my db dead ?

dawmette(at)gmail(dot)com escribió:
> My server crashed yesterday, the hd was saved though and I was able to
> get a copy of the data directory of my pg cluster. On the server now,
> when I start pg, I can see only like 1% of my data, there are many dbs/
> tables and rows missing. But the data dir seems ok in size though. So
> I copied the whole data dir to a new serv, installed the same pg
> version but now I can't get it started at all. There are some weird
> things in the pg_controldata :
>
> pg_control last modified: Tue 03 Sep 6869 17:57:36 CET
> Time of latest checkpoint: Thu 11 Jan 1116953 03:46:31 CET
> LC_COLLATE:
> LC_CTYPE:

What's the full pg_controldata output? Can you send the pg_control file
as a binary attachment?

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