Re: Recovering from numbered directories - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Recovering from numbered directories
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Msg-id 22141.1173298917@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Recovering from numbered directories  (Bradley Kieser <brad@kieser.net>)
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Bradley Kieser <brad@kieser.net> writes:
> Has anyone done this? In a fatal crash where the backup only recovered
> the numbered directories (data dirs) of a PG installation (i.e. nothing
> above the numbered directories), is it possible to reinstall the exact
> same version of PG and recover the databases from just those numbered
> directories?

If you haven't got pg_clog you're pretty much screwed :-(

            regards, tom lane

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