Well all, I just spent a bit of time trying to figure out how to recover a
database where the tables appear to be intact with postgres in 'single
user mode', and came up with a quick and dirty that might not be totally
complete, but might help someone else in a similar situation ...
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#!/usr/bin/perl
$table = $ARGV[0];
while(<STDIN>) { if(length($fields) > 0 && /\s+----/) { print "INSERT INTO $table ( $fields ) VALUES ( $values );\n";
$fields = ""; $values = ""; } if(/\s+\d: (\w+) = "(.+)"/) { if(length($fields) > 0) { $fields .= ","; } $fields
.=$1; if(length($values) > 0) { $values .= ","; } if(/typeid = 23/) { $values .= $2; } else { $values .=
"'". $2 . "'"; } }
}
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To run it, use:
echo "SELECT * FROM <table>;" | \
~/bin/postgres -O -P -D/home/staff/scrappy/recovery/sales.org <database> | \
../convert.pl <table>
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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