Thread: Data recovery after inadvertent update?

Data recovery after inadvertent update?

From
Craig Ringer
Date:
Hi all

Someone on SO has UPDATEd away some data they cared about. I've written a bit on what they might want to do, but really don't know enough, so I was hoping for some aid/ideas. In particular, is the advice to use " pg_ctl stop -m immediate" (to hopefully avoid a checkpoint) appropriate and useful? I'm just not sure.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12472318/can-i-rollback-a-transaction-ive-already-committed-data-loss

Also, are there any functions to read raw tuple bytes to `RECORD's? I couldn't find any in `pageinspect', `pgstattuple', `adminpack', etc. Am I right in guessing that they're pretty much going to require hand data recovery or the use of some custom C extension code to get at the data - if it still exists?

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Craig Ringer

Re: Data recovery after inadvertent update?

From
Виктор Егоров
Date:
Check this post on depesz.com:
http://www.depesz.com/2012/04/04/lets-talk-dirty/

2012/9/18 Craig Ringer <ringerc@ringerc.id.au>
Also, are there any functions to read raw tuple bytes to `RECORD's? I couldn't find any in `pageinspect', `pgstattuple', `adminpack', etc. Am I right in guessing that they're pretty much going to require hand data recovery or the use of some custom C extension code to get at the data - if it still exists?


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Victor Y. Yegorov