Hello,
I use postgresql 8.1 on a debian server with a /var JFS filesystem.
After a crash of this FS (due to hardware instability: PSU), the
/var/lib/postgresql/8.1/main folder was missing and its files were
found under /var/lost+found.
We have a full daily backup of this DB but I try to recover data from
the morning it crashed.
This is what I was able to recover :
- main/base apparently without missing files !
- main/pg_xlog : I don't have these files names (but I can guess it
from PG start errors) and I don't know in which order I've have to
name them
- main/pg_clog files 0000 and 0001 but not 0003 which I replaced with
a zero padded file
- main/pg_multixact
- main/global/pg_control
But the global folder content was not found. I probably have piece of
it but I wasn't able to identify them except for pg_control.
I tried to restore all the files over a base debian installation and
then inserting a record in pg_database table like that :
insert into pg_database (datname, datdba, encoding, datistemplate,
datallowconn, datconnlimit, datlastsysoid, datvacuumxid, datfrozenxid,
dattablespace) VALUES ( 'ex1', 10, 8, 'f', 't', -1, 10792, 499, 499,
1663);
PG started without error and I can connect to the DB created but \dt
show me nothing.
Do you have alternatives to restore a db from main/base files ?
If you have a method to reorder pg_xlog files, it interest me too.
Thank you
