Fwd: Recover database from binary files

Diogo Oliveira de Melo
Ciência da Computação
ICMC - USP São Carlos

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From: Diogo Melo <dmelo87(at)gmail(dot)com>
Date: Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:43 PM
Subject: Recover database from binary files
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org

Hi,

I can't boot the postgres server anymore. I just have access to the files,
like the /var/lib/postgresql/8.3 path, for example. I use debian and
postgresql-8.3 .

I don't have any sql dump. How can I recover my databases with just the
binary files there?

I tried copy the /var/lib/postgresql/8.3 to another a installation of
postgresql-8.3 on another server, but without success.

Diogo Oliveira de Melo
Ciência da Computação
ICMC - USP São Carlos