Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The only recovery strategy that I can think of in 8.1 is to blow away > your WAL with pg_resetxlog, let the database come up in a damaged > condition, and then try to extract data from it. Would it work if he rebuilt 8.1 with a "return;" as the first line of gist_redo() in gistxlog.c and when recovery (hopefully) completes immediately drop any gist indexes? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's On-Demand Production Tuning
