Re: How to restore updated records

Your best bet on something like this is probably going to be
contacting a company that does PostgreSQL support and inquiring about
data recovery. EnterpriseDB and Command Prompt both employ folks who
could probably accomplish this; I think OmniTI might as well. There's
probably a few others.

On Jun 12, 2007, at 11:19 AM, zz_11@mail.bg wrote:

>
> No, I do not have WAL archiving.
> I hope some one have done the hacking in postmaster.
> If no one have done this, my idea was to change the vacuum
> (or make e new copy).
> I am not familiar with pg code, but as I know by running
> vacuum, pg marks deleted records as free, and my idea was to
> mark this records as real record in the database (if it is
> possible).
>
> regards,
> ivan.
>
>> Ivan,
>>
>> if you have configured WAL archiving, you may want to
>> look at
>>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/backup-online.html,
>> especially paragraph '23.3..4. Timelines'.
>>
>> List: Maybe someone already hacked the postmaster to
>> extract deleted records?!
>>
>> HTH, Oliver.
>>
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>> [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org] Im Auftrag von
>> zz_11@mail.bg
>> Gesendet: Montag, 11. Juni 2007 19:35
>> An: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
>> Betreff: [ADMIN] How to restore updated records
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi all.
>> Sorry for my problem.
>> I am using pg on ~100 servers fro 5 y. without any
>> problems,
>> but this time I make a big mistake.
>>
>> A have a table tasks with about 20000 records.
>> The table have ID as pk and some other fields.
>>
>> I typed : update tasks set c1='sss';
>> instead update tasks setc1='sss' where id=10;
>>
>> And the pg updated all my table tasks.
>>
>> I do not have any backup on this table.
>> Exists any way to restore the data>
>> After the mistake I stopped to execute any commands to
>> this
>> database and also I DO NOT HAVE running vacuum, vacuum
>> analyze ot vacuum full analyze on this table.
>>
>> I know pg stores the old copy of data, but I do not have
>> any
>> idea how to restore this deleted records.
>>
>> Pls., point me to any solution for this problem.
>>
>> Many thanks and best regards,
>> ivan.
>>
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