"Shea,Dan [CIS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
The pg_resetxlog was run as root. It caused ownership problems of pg_control and xlog files. Now we have no access to the data now through psql. The data is still there under /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/17347 (PWFPM_DEV DB name). But there is no reference to 36 of our tables in pg_class. Also the 18 other tables that are reported in this database have no data in them. Is there anyway to have the database resync or make it aware of the data under /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/17347? How can this problem be resolved?
What this sounds like is that you reset the transaction counter along with the xlog, so that those tables appear to have been created by transactions "in the future". This could be repaired by doing pg_resetxlog with a more appropriate initial transaction ID, but figuring out what that value should be is not easy :-(
Tom - would there be any value in adding this to a pg_dump? I'm assuming the numbers attached to tables etc are their OIDs anyway, so it might be a useful reference in cases like this.
-- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd
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