Re: Damaged (during upgrade?) table, how to repair?

On 7/4/21 11:59 AM, W.P. wrote:
> W dniu 04.07.2021 o 19:48, Adrian Klaver pisze:
>> On 7/4/21 9:33 AM, W.P. wrote:
>>> W dniu 02.07.2021 o 21:05, Adrian Klaver pisze:
>>>> On 7/2/21 10:18 AM, W.P. wrote:
>>>>> W dniu 02.07.2021 o 17:16, Adrian Klaver pisze:
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So you have backup of the failed machine's disk stored somewhere
>>>>>> else?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> No, I have disc from this machine, looks not damaged (random
>>>>> files). Only problem that OS does not boot beyond "emergency mode".
>>>>
>>>> I would say your second sentence contradicts your first.
>>>
>>> Nope ;). There was 1 500GB disc, with Fedora24 and Postgres 9.5. Then
>>> copied "sector by sector" (and resized partitions, volumes, fs) to
>>> 1TB one. This was my "working" disc.
>>>
>>
>> Just dawned on me, why aren't you working directly from the 1TB disk?
>>
>> It has the presumably intact files from before the OS/Postgres
>> upgrades and the power experiment.
>>
> "Only problem that OS does not boot beyond "emergency mode"."...

I thought the 1TB disk was copied over before you did any of the
upgrades and experimentation?

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> But I made some progress:
>
> - booted up into single user, bring up Ethernet, now CAN start Postgres
> but only using pg_ctl directly, does NOT work using systemctl... So
> problem is (possibly) with systemd.
>
> Dumped base, pg_dump worked fine, dump gzipped is < 600MB, so I assume
> that somehow Postgres recovered from my (stupid) move...

Dumped from what Postgres instance 9.5 or 11?

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> BTW, pls respond only to list.

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