Data recovery after inadvertent update? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Craig Ringer
Subject Data recovery after inadvertent update?
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Msg-id 50583A9E.10208@ringerc.id.au
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Hi all

Someone on SO has UPDATEd away some data they cared about. I've written a bit on what they might want to do, but really don't know enough, so I was hoping for some aid/ideas. In particular, is the advice to use " pg_ctl stop -m immediate" (to hopefully avoid a checkpoint) appropriate and useful? I'm just not sure.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12472318/can-i-rollback-a-transaction-ive-already-committed-data-loss

Also, are there any functions to read raw tuple bytes to `RECORD's? I couldn't find any in `pageinspect', `pgstattuple', `adminpack', etc. Am I right in guessing that they're pretty much going to require hand data recovery or the use of some custom C extension code to get at the data - if it still exists?

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Craig Ringer

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