Re: Recovering from numbered directories

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bradley Kieser <brad(at)kieser(dot)net>
Cc: PgSQL ADMIN <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Recovering from numbered directories
Date: 2007-03-07 20:21:57
Message-ID: 22141.1173298917@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bradley Kieser <brad(at)kieser(dot)net> writes:
> Has anyone done this? In a fatal crash where the backup only recovered
> the numbered directories (data dirs) of a PG installation (i.e. nothing
> above the numbered directories), is it possible to reinstall the exact
> same version of PG and recover the databases from just those numbered
> directories?

If you haven't got pg_clog you're pretty much screwed :-(

regards, tom lane

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