Re: I lost the pg_control file

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tulio Oliveira <mestredosmagos(at)marilia(dot)com>
Cc: Tulio Oliveira <tulio(at)marilia(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: I lost the pg_control file
Date: 2001-05-07 00:06:45
Message-ID: 6800.989194005@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tulio Oliveira <mestredosmagos(at)marilia(dot)com> writes:
> Yeah, I run configure by myself... But I download the lastest PostgreSQL
> version 7.1.1 and with this I can compile the pg_resetxlog... Then I ran
> it over my $PGDATA directory with 4.5Gb of data.

> But then, all data lost. When I "psql dbtest" and type \d, I can't see
> any tables in there...

Hm. Try tweaking pg_resetxlog to insert a really large "next
transaction number" in the -f case, say about 2 billion instead of the
rather silly 514 it's using now (there are two places to change, look
for XXX comments).

regards, tom lane

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