Re: Restore deleted rows

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Anton Egorov <anton(dot)egoroff(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Restore deleted rows
Date: 2009-04-27 14:46:54
Message-ID: 20090427144654.GY10358@alvh.no-ip.org
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Anton Egorov escribió:
> Hi!
>
> I need to recover deleted rows from table. After I delete those rows I
> stopped postgres immediately and create tar archive of database. I found
> solution http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-03/msg00965.php,
> but is there another (easyer) way to do it?

I guess you could figure out the Xid of the transaction that deleted the
tuples, and mark it as aborted in pg_clog; you'd also need to reset the
hint bits on the tuples themselves. Not necessarily any easier than the
above, but at least you don't have to patch Postgres code.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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