Recover v6.5 database

From: "Adam Wyard" <adam(at)candela(dot)com(dot)au>
To: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Recover v6.5 database
Date: 2002-03-13 23:49:00
Message-ID: 013801c1cae9$a67bb380$0100a8c0@nsw.bigpond.net.au
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I am trying to recover some database from a crashed server which had Postgres v6.5 - after plenty of mucking about I've found another server with the old version which I can use to dump the databases.

However, when I copy all the files over only the system tables are visible in psql. The \d command gives:
Couldn't find any tables, sequences or indices!

select * from pg_class; just gives the system tables, but when I view the actual pg_class file I can see the other tables in there (amongst all the binary data).

Is there something else which needs to be done before the tables can be used?

Thanks

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