Re: lost data, possible playback?

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Palle Girgensohn" <girgen(at)pingpong(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, kudo(at)pingpong(dot)net
Subject: Re: lost data, possible playback?
Date: 2007-12-06 17:51:17
Message-ID: dcc563d10712060951r7c9d0d01x841e21127c0f5e5b@mail.gmail.com
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On Dec 6, 2007 11:11 AM, Palle Girgensohn <girgen(at)pingpong(dot)net> wrote:
> > So, I *must* have an image of the entire database, and I *must* have all
> > WAL files since the image snapshot was taken?
>
> Is the real reason for the negative answer that there is a "hole" in the
> pg_xlogs from 3 am - 9 am?

No, the problem is that you don't have a system image from before the
problem occurred. You need a file system backup from before the
delete occurred, and a set of logs from the time the file system
backup occurred until the accidental delete occurred.

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