Re: backend corruption - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Brett W. McCoy
Subject Re: backend corruption
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0101061914450.8905-100000@chapelperilous.net
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In response to Re: backend corruption  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Yeah, but those files are only half the truth.  The other half lives in
> pg_log and the installation-wide tables (pg_database, etc).  George is
> correct: you cannot recover using only the contents of $PGDATA/base/foo.
> You really need all of $PGDATA.

Really?  I stand corrected.

How does MySQL do things?

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