recovering a control file from a shutdown database....

Somehow in upgrading from 7.1.2 to 7.1.3 (and with much operator error
along the way), my database became corrupted.

I believe it is only the pg_control file that was damaged.

The database was completely shutdown at the time.

Is there anyway to create a new pg_control file, based on the contents of
the database itself?

The symptoms are that the

data/global/1262 file has a file size of 8192 bytes and a time stamp of
last June.
data/global/pg_control has a file size of 16384 bytes and a time stamp of
today.

When the postmaster starts up, it tells me that:

database was initialized with BLCKSZ 16384,
but the backend was compiled with BLCKSZ 8192.
looks like you need an initdb.

Bleh! I would prefer to not waste my db, and I assume initdb will do just
that.

Can anything be done to recover the pg_control file?

Thanks,

Jerry
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