Re: Disk crash problems: postgres database not functioning anymore

Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I lost two databases due to a crash of my RAID5 which resulted in a
> filesystem corruption. One of the two databases is the "postgres"
> maintenance database  of which I have no backup.

The postgres database generally doesn't have much useful info.  You can
recreate it from template1 and nothing will be lost.

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