On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Stephen R. van den Berg <s...@cuci.nl> wrote: > Greg Stark wrote: > >> But I'm not sure how useful. I mean, you can't really decipher >>everything properly without the data in the catalog -- and you have to >>premise this on the idea that you've lost everything in the catalog >>but not the data in other tables. Which seems like a narrow use case. > > It happens, more often than you'd think. My client had it, I've > seen numerous google hits which show the same.
It happened to us recently when a customer had disk issues, and we were able to get the table files back through forensics, but the control files were not in good shape, and the cluster wouldn't start. A tool like Stephen is proposing would most likely have helped us recover at least some or most of the data, I would hope. Roberto -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
