On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Felde Norbert <fenor77@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Before I began I made a filesystem level backup after I stopped the > postgres service. > I have the original 0003 file, the size is 204800, The size of the > other files in this dir is 262144. hm...any indication of why the file is small? run out of space? filesystem/os issues? try appending hex 0x55 to the end of the file until it's the right length and starting up the database. disable everything (don't vacuum) and immediately try to pull off a dump. what's the last good backup you have? merlin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general