I've havn't done anything much with it in a while, but the link below may
help.
http://svana.org/kleptog/pgsql/pgfsck.html
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:21:30AM +0100, Neil Fraser wrote:
> One of our PostgreSQL databases has been corrupted somehow. Whenever we
> try to open it or access it the 'postmaster' task suddenly goes to 99%
> CPU usage, it rapidly eats up all memory, then crashes our server.
>
> This behaviour occurs when the database is opened in using Perl's DBI,
> or when using psql or pg_dump or vacuumdb. There is about a megabyte of
> text contained in this database which I'd rather like to extract
> somehow. Our other PostgreSQL databases are running perfectly.
>
> Any suggestions on how to recover my data? I've browsed the PG data
> files, but they appear to be binary, which I can't read.
>
> PostgreSQL 7.1.1 on Linux 2.2.19
>
> Thank you.
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.
