Sorry for sending this directly to the hackers mailing list. But, i think it did not belong in any other as it involves
internalsabout the files in the data directory.
PostgreSQL version: 8.1.2
Operating system: Windows XP/2003
The PostgreSQL service is not starting anymore. When I manually start it, it said something like it started but ended
immediatelybecause it had no work to do. I encountered this error before but a simple re-installation fixed it. This
time,it didn't.
I've tried running the service using a backup data folder w/c was 2 days ago, it runs. When I switch back to the
current,I get the error above. So, I figured the current data must be corrupt. After examination of the data folder,
theglobal folder is now not a folder but a file that is 8KB in size (I found this out by trying out the reset_xlog
commandand it said it could no longer find the global/xxx file). It could be the hard disk has a problem. I'm going to
replaceit soon.
I searched the documentation about what the global folder contains and found out that these contain cluster-wide tables
likethe list of databases, etc.
I wanted not to lose the latest transactions by restoring a backup. Now the question is this, is it ok to just copy the
globalfolder from my backup 2 days ago, and replace the one in my current data folder? I'm very very sure no DDL
statementswere executed or no new databases/other objects were created since my last backup. Only DML statements were
executedon the user's databases. Will I lose data if I do this?
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