Re: backend corruption

From: "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: George Johnson <gjohnson(at)jdsc(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: backend corruption
Date: 2001-01-07 00:18:05
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0101061914450.8905-100000@chapelperilous.net
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On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Yeah, but those files are only half the truth. The other half lives in
> pg_log and the installation-wide tables (pg_database, etc). George is
> correct: you cannot recover using only the contents of $PGDATA/base/foo.
> You really need all of $PGDATA.

Really? I stand corrected.

How does MySQL do things?

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