Hi,
On May 11, 2:39pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> What I would recommend as a first step is to stop the postmaster and
> then take a tarball backup of the entire $PGDATA tree. This will at
> least provide a chance to go back if subsequent tries mess things up
> completely.
Done. This was probably the biggest tar ball I have ever build (~450GB) ;)
>
> After that, I'd try a plain VACUUM (not FULL, not FREEZE) of pg_class
> and see if that restores the missing tables to view in pg_tables.
Done. The tables that were missing in pg_tables (but accessible with SELECT)
are now listed in pg_tables.
> If it does, go ahead and do a database-wide plain VACUUM, and you
> should be OK.
Done. As far as I can tell, everything is OK again.
Thanks a lot Tom!
P.S.:A TODO for me: CRON Script for weekly VACUUM ;)
Michael
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