Marcos de Lima Takayas mentioned : => We had an accident with a table where all tuples where deleted. => We have not run VACUUM yet and it seems like the datas are in place => in the base directory. => Our backup were not active when this happened. => I have seen some talk (Mr.Zé Carlos) about that it is possible to restore => those missing => data in this case, but I have not yet seen a solution for it. => Can anyone please help with this problem, it is kind of critical for us. When this message was sent a year ago, it also didn't mention the postgres version or the operating system. Is this _really_ that critical for you? : http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2004-07/msg00209.php