"Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> My development database died without a recent backup (it's a
> development, and not a production machine, so no automated backup :-p
> ). I can't make Postgres run again without an initdb, which will wipe
> out my data. Is there any way I can retrieve the schema and data from
> the raw files, which are intact?
I'm confused. Your machine died, but you still have the files?
What exactly have you lost?
regards, tom lane