Re: [DOCS] Database Recovery

2004-12-20 Thread Harry
--- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In hindsight I would have done some things differently, like > posting to > > one of the lists. If you think that it would be better for people > to > > ask the list and run from there then I will leave it. > > Well, w

Re: [DOCS] Database Recovery

2004-12-19 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 04:11:17PM -0800, Harry wrote: >> http://www.hjackson.org/blog/archives/2004/12/postgresql_data.html > Huh, this sounds like transaction Id wraparound to me. Given the mention of a drive glitch, I'm mentally comparing it to our

Re: [DOCS] Database Recovery

2004-12-19 Thread Tom Lane
Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In hindsight I would have done some things differently, like posting to > one of the lists. If you think that it would be better for people to > ask the list and run from there then I will leave it. Well, we should certainly encourage people to post such problem

Re: [DOCS] Database Recovery

2004-12-19 Thread Harry
--- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is there any material online on how to recover a corrupt postgresql > > database? > > There are dozens if not hundreds of case histories in the mailing > list archives; the latest example is this thread: > http://archi

Re: [DOCS] Database Recovery

2004-12-19 Thread Harry
--- Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.hjackson.org/blog/archives/2004/12/postgresql_data.html > > Huh, this sounds like transaction Id wraparound to me. Do you > regularly run vacuums on the whole database? Did you ask for expert > help on the lists before running to do w

Re: [DOCS] Database Recovery

2004-12-19 Thread Tom Lane
Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any material online on how to recover a corrupt postgresql > database? There are dozens if not hundreds of case histories in the mailing list archives; the latest example is this thread: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-12/msg00479.php

Re: [DOCS] Database Recovery

2004-12-19 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 04:11:17PM -0800, Harry wrote: > I have just had a bit of a disaster with a database and found very > little material online about how to recover from a corrupted database. > This is not the first time I have had to recoover data from a postgres > database which was caused e

[DOCS] Database Recovery

2004-12-19 Thread Harry
I have just had a bit of a disaster with a database and found very little material online about how to recover from a corrupted database. This is not the first time I have had to recoover data from a postgres database which was caused either by some hardware failure or my own error (not sure which