| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> | 
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| To: | Jose Calderon <jcalderon(at)nandk(dot)com> | 
| Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Re: database cluster missing | 
| Date: | 2007-11-26 22:10:26 | 
| Message-ID: | 4338.1196115026@sss.pgh.pa.us | 
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Jose Calderon <jcalderon(at)nandk(dot)com> writes:
> Hello I don't know where to start with this problem, so we do weekly 
> backups of our computers.  The hard drive of one of our computers stopped 
> working so we are trying to restore it.  We had an image of the hard drive 
> and used the latest backups.  Now I can start the database without a 
> problem but it doesn't list any of the databases we had on it.  Using 
> SELECT datname FROM pg_database ORDER BY datname returns no entries and 
> even if I connect using pgAdmin III I see no databases.
Vacuuming pg_database might help ... if so, you probably need
database-wide vacuums in all your databases.
regards, tom lane
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