Re: Read recover rows

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alejandro Carrillo <fasterzip(at)yahoo(dot)es>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Read recover rows
Date: 2012-12-14 15:30:14
Message-ID: 214.1355499014@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On 12/13/2012 06:51 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Make sure the server is down and replace a table's file with the file
>> you have. You can just create a dummy empty table with exactly the same
>> row type as the one that had the table the file was for; you need to
>> recreate dropped columns as well.

> So it is possible to slide a file under a table?
> How exactly do you do that and keep the OID and filenode references in sync?

The XIDs embedded in the tuples would be the big problem.

regards, tom lane

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