Re: Read db files directly

[Mingzuo Shen <mzshen(at)yahoo(dot)com>]

Thanks Aaron.

No. pg_dump, psql do not "see" those files.
As I said, psql -l shows "nothing".
pg_dumpall outputs nothing.

strings 3476895975

for example, does show a lot of text,
some of them seem to be actual data
that I am interested in extracting.

If I create a new db and create new tables
in the new db, then they work as usual.



--- Aaron Bono <postgresql(at)aranya(dot)com> wrote:

> On 7/22/06, Shen, Mingzuo <mshen(at)bcm(dot)edu> wrote:
> >
> >  Hello,
> >
> > I see some OS files (50+ GB total) but cannot see
> anything in psql -l.
> > There seem to be some big tables there.
> > I wonder if there are some tools that would dump
> the tables in text.
> > or, how to make PostgreSQL "connect" to these
> files again?
> >
> 
> You can dump the whole database contents with
> pg_dump.  This dumps your
> whole database with data into a text file.  Is this
> what you mean?
> 
>
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