Re: Help to restore lost database - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Help to restore lost database
Date
Msg-id 1833.1025098943@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Help to restore lost database  ("brunormr" <brunormr@bol.com.br>)
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"brunormr" <brunormr@bol.com.br> writes:
>   I erased the files (000000000000 and
> 000000000001) that were im the pg_xlog
> folder into the data directory of
> pgsql.

A piece of advice: if you don't know what a file is for, don't remove
it.

>   I have all the other files of the
> database and I want to restore the
> data, but I hadn't made a backup (a
> dump). Is there a way to restore the
> files on the pg_xlog with the other
> files or to save the data from the
> database?

If the postmaster was shut down at the time, then running
contrib/pg_resetxlog should get you out of trouble.

            regards, tom lane



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