> My hard disk partition with the postgres data directory got full. I
> tried to shut down postgres so I could clear some space, nothing
> happened. So I did a reboot. On restart (after clearing some
> pg_sorttemp.XX files), I discovered that all my tables appear empty!
> When I check in the data directories of the databases, I see that the
> files for each table have data (they are still of the size as before).
>
> I've been running some experiments on another machine and notice that
> if I remove the pg_log file, databases seem to disappear (or data to
> become invisible). So I am guessing that postgres is looking in one
> place and deciding there is no data. Now I need to get my data of
> course! Any solutions?? My programming skills are generally very good
> so
> if it involves some code I'd have no problem. How do I get a dump of
> the
> raw data (saw copy-style output) from the table files? Please help!
>
> I am running v7.0.3 on linux kernel v2.2
You might want to look at pg_check located here www.arcamax.com/pg_check.
Note that the results might contain rows that have been previously deleted
and both new and old copies of rows that have been updated.