On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? if you want to move this along faster and get some more minds on the problem, hop onto postgresql irc channel: http://www.postgresql.org/community/irc also make sure not to modifiy your original filesystem snapshot. always modify the copy first. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
