Accidentally deleted records - PostgreSQL 7.2

[Szymon]

Hello!
I have accidentaly deleted about 1,000,000 records from one table
(about 80%). Is there any possibility to recover them?
I found two files: xlog and a file which I assume contains all the
data from the table (including the deleted rows). But I cannot read
from it - I don't know the format of the data.
Can anyone help me? Private message appreciated.

Regards,

Szymon

[Alvaro Herrera]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:23:57AM -0700, Szymon wrote:

I have accidentaly deleted about 1,000,000 records from one table
(about 80%). Is there any possibility to recover them?
I found two files: xlog and a file which I assume contains all the
data from the table (including the deleted rows). But I cannot read
from it - I don't know the format of the data.

You don't have any backups?

Maybe you could use pgfsck to recover some data from the table, not
sure. See http://svana.org/kleptog/

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