Re: database cluster missing

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Jose Calderon <jcalderon(at)nandk(dot)com> writes:
> Hello I don't know where to start with this problem, so we do weekly 
> backups of our computers.  The hard drive of one of our computers stopped 
> working so we are trying to restore it.  We had an image of the hard drive 
> and used the latest backups.  Now I can start the database without a 
> problem but it doesn't list any of the databases we had on it.  Using 
> SELECT datname FROM pg_database ORDER BY datname returns no entries and 
> even if I connect using pgAdmin III I see no databases.

Vacuuming pg_database might help ... if so, you probably need
database-wide vacuums in all your databases.

			regards, tom lane