Thanks Aaron.
No. pg_dump, psql do not "see" those files.
As I said, psql -l shows "nothing".
pg_dumpall outputs nothing.
strings 3476895975
for example, does show a lot of text,
some of them seem to be actual data
that I am interested in extracting.
If I create a new db and create new tables
in the new db, then they work as usual.
--- Aaron Bono <postgresql@aranya.com> wrote:
> On 7/22/06, Shen, Mingzuo <mshen@bcm.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I see some OS files (50+ GB total) but cannot see
> anything in psql -l.
> > There seem to be some big tables there.
> > I wonder if there are some tools that would dump
> the tables in text.
> > or, how to make PostgreSQL "connect" to these
> files again?
> >
>
> You can dump the whole database contents with
> pg_dump. This dumps your
> whole database with data into a text file. Is this
> what you mean?
>
>
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