Re: REINDEX "is not a btree"

From: decibel <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Vanessa Lopez <v(dot)lopez(at)open(dot)ac(dot)uk>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: REINDEX "is not a btree"
Date: 2009-07-10 03:06:02
Message-ID: 7D6BC9CA-C4FB-46DF-8D34-507163199802@decibel.org
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On Jul 4, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 15:00 +0100, Vanessa Lopez wrote:
>> I don't know much about postgre, I have no clue what else I can do.
>> Please, please any help is very very much appreciated I have lots of
>> databases and months of work in postgre (also lots of backups for the
>> data in /data)
>
> When you say "in /data", do you mean the directory that contains the
> directories "pg_xlog", "base", "global", "pg_clog", etc ?
>
> Did you back up and restore the WHOLE data directory at once? Or
> did you
> restore only parts of it?

And how exactly did you make the backups? You can't simply take a
filesystem copy of a running database; that won't work.
--
Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
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