Re: Clues about tables fileformat

Miguel A. Ar�valo wrote:
> Amazing,
>
> although my computer runs only free software for many months (and partly
> for many years) I still get shocked when I get a real useful answer from
> a mailing list, from one of the real men, that really solves real
> problems with a piece of software in less time that Microsoft Support
> used to last to pick up the phone in my (now happily far behind) days of
> NT, Exchange and M$ SQL Server administrator.
>
> Of course thanks a lot for the quick and precise answer. Of course, it
> worked.
>
> But I'm still interested in working in that recovery tool (of course
> with less pressure), as it would be very useful, not only for this kind
> of "problems" but with problems with corruption (with some love) and
> recovering data without stopping the database (or with minimum downtime)
> nor installing PostgreSQL on another machine, so I'm still interested in
> any doc or information of help in order to implement it.
>
> And thanks again for this excellent (o)RDBMS, I'm dying to see that
> wonderful eager replication system that is being integrated into 7.3 and
> later

I have started work on a data recovery article.  You will hear on
general when it is done.

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