Re: [GENERAL] Recovering data from corrupted table. Urgent Help!!

2004-10-14 Thread Gaetano Mendola
ruben wrote: Hi Gaetano: This procedure to recover data from a corrupted table should be documented somewhere... If it is, I could not find it! First of all the table was not corrupted, the glitch was in another subsystem. The procedure is documented in the archives :-( I agree with you but

[GENERAL] Recovering data from corrupted table. Urgent Help!!

2004-10-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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

Re: [GENERAL] Recovering data from corrupted table. Urgent Help!!

2004-10-13 Thread Gaetano Mendola
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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:

Re: [GENERAL] Recovering data from corrupted table. Urgent Help!!

2004-10-13 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Gaetano Mendola wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [GENERAL] Recovering data from corrupted table. Urgent Help!!

2004-10-13 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Create a file with that name filled with zeros with the same length as the other files in that directory. That should get you far enough to dump the data. Then run a complete set of memory and disk checks on your system... On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 02:56:37PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi:

Re: [GENERAL] Recovering data from corrupted table. Urgent Help!!

2004-10-13 Thread ruben
Hi Gaetano: This procedure to recover data from a corrupted table should be documented somewhere... If it is, I could not find it! Now I wonder if I have lost any data, because after creating the pg_clog/0004 and running VACCUM everything seems ok. Thanks a lot for your help. Ruben. Gaetano