Thanks to all ... I think I'm closer to at leasting
something useful as far as the database is concern.
Recap: Running PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on RedHat Linux 7.2
and I just experienced a RAID failure with the DB
still active. Tom pointed me in the area of the file
'1249' which was no longer in my database directory.
I copied that from anther directory and got part
of the way there. There were some errors regarding
missing files in pg_clog - I faked that, too.
Now: I am getting an error when I try to do a select
from any table :
[snip]
cannot find attribute 1 of relation <table>
[/snip]
Looking in the groups.google.com, I see similar things
which was fixed with running PostgreSQL in stand alone
mode and forcing a reindex. When I tried that, I got:
[snip error]
[/snip]
backend> reindex database testdb force ;
DEBUG: StartTransactionCommand
DEBUG: query: reindex database testdb force ;
DEBUG: ProcessUtility: reindex database testdb force ;
ERROR: Cannot create unique index. Table contains non-unique values
DEBUG: AbortCurrentTransaction
[snip error]
Is there a way around this so I can at least dump some
data?
Thanks bunches!
-X