Re: Recovering data from corrupted table. Urgent Help!!

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: "ruben20(at)superguai(dot)com" <ruben20(at)superguai(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Recovering data from corrupted table. Urgent Help!!
Date: 2004-10-13 14:54:11
Message-ID: 416D4193.9020203@bigfoot.com
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ruben20(at)superguai(dot)com wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Is there any way to recover data from a corrupted table? I can only run
> SELECTs on certain WHERE conditions.
>
> I cannot vacuum, pg_dump, I've deleted the indexes and try to reindex,
> always get error:
>
> ERROR: could not access status of transaction 4244329
> DETAIL: could not open file "/usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog/0004": No
> existe el fichero o el directorio
>
> Thanks a lot.

Again:

create an empty file:

# touch /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_clog/0004

at this point postgres will complain about the fact that an offset is missing,

at this point fill with 0 your file ( blocks of 8K ) till reach that offset reclaimed.

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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