[ADMIN] Broken Tables?

[james]

Hi, I'm working on a disaster recovery.......       When I do a psql> SELECT * from tablename;   I get the full table back, but when I do a   psql> SELECT * from tablename WHERE column_name ='variable';   it returns empty rows even though I know for a fact and have checked using the select * query that rows should exist and have the variable in the correct column!!!   I could do a select *, grab all the data then drop the table then create the same table again and feed in the data, but I wonder if there is a better way???   Cheers...   James