As a followup to all this, the OP also needs to figure out why a crashed server could cause so much corruption. This is usually the result of hardware lying about fsync status, i.e. consumer grade hardware pressed into service as a server. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin