Will Cameron <novawcameron@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "starting a standalone postgres > session and using it to recreate your SQL users". Do you mean running > initdb on a new data directory and then trying to create new users? No, I mean stopping the postmaster, running a stand-alone backend as documented in http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/app-postgres.html and issuing a CREATE USER command for each account you find is missing from pg_shadow. You could probably just recreate the postgres superuser this way, and then go back to normal operating mode for the rest of the recovery. Note you'll want to use the SYSID option of CREATE USER to make sure the users are recreated with the same pg_shadow.usesysid they had before, else their owned objects will not be correctly linked to them. Look into the owner columns of pg_class etc to determine the values you need. regards, tom lane
