Re: Recovering data via raw table and field separators

From: "John Wells" <jb(at)sourceillustrated(dot)com>
To: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Recovering data via raw table and field separators
Date: 2007-12-04 18:19:25
Message-ID: 44dddf400712041019g2ff04037kc23b9876990ee5e5@mail.gmail.com
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On 12/4/07, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
> There are no field separators. Perhaps you could extract some useful
> info with pg_filedump, which you can grab at
> http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb

So is it simply field width? Can one count the number of bytes based
on native datatype length and determine field start/end?

Thanks!
John

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