dx k9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there any way to trick an instance into starting when you just have base, 
> global, pg_clog, pg_mulitxact, pg_subtrans, pg_tblspc, & pg_twophase, but no 
> pg_xlog?

pg_resetxlog would probably be enough to get it to start, but the odds
of having a non-corrupt database afterwards don't seem very good.

>  We weren't backing up the pg_xlog, because we didn't think we needed it, but 
> the backup_label seems to need it.  Even if we take the backup_label file 
> out, and try to start postgres, it doesn't start.

Have you read the manual's chapter on backup/restore?  There are several
documented ways to do things successfully, but inventing your own is not
likely to work.

                        regards, tom lane

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