well, in all my wisdom and quick typing, i dropped a main table rather than the one i meant to drop. this just happened. can i recover it with some quick statement???????? i have an actual backup on tape from last night -- not a pgdump but a physical backup of the files in the database directory. i could restore the actual file from the tape, but how to get it in pg_database? surely there is an "undrop"?? (kind'a kidding, but really hoping!) thanks for any help you can offer. btw, postgres 6.4.2, rh linux 5.2 jt ************