Lee Duynslager <lee.duynsla...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi I am trying to recover a postgres database from a ext3 partition > that the filesystem has become corrupt and lost files. Can anybody > tell me what are the file signatures for the files that comprise a > postgres database?
Look at PageHeaderIsValid in bufpage.c. Those tests are pretty weak if only applied once, but if you got matches on the first ten or twenty 8K pages of a file, you could probably conclude it was a PG file with high confidence. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers