Recover v6.5 database - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Adam Wyard
Subject Recover v6.5 database
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Msg-id 013801c1cae9$a67bb380$0100a8c0@nsw.bigpond.net.au
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I am trying to recover some database from a crashed server which had Postgres v6.5 - after plenty of mucking about I've found another server with the old version which I can use to dump the databases.
 
However, when I copy all the files over only the system tables are visible in psql. The \d command gives:
Couldn't find any tables, sequences or indices!
 
select * from pg_class; just gives the system tables, but when I view the actual pg_class file I can see the other tables in there (amongst all the binary data).
 
Is there something else which needs to be done before the tables can be used?
 
Thanks
 

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