Re: Tom, I've got an emergency - please help me

Henrik Steffen wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> thanks for your reply
>
> > You could try reindexing the system tables, but I don't have a lot of
> > hope for that.  See the REINDEX man page.
>
> I allready tried this ... didn't work out.
>
> OK - I am sorry, but the ECC-RAM I ordered didn't run in the old server
> so I had to order a new server as fast as possible... it's going to run
> in a about 20-30 minutes hopefully....
>
> How can I start postgres in stand-alone mode with "-o -P" as you wrote
> and then do a pg_dump ? Or did I get you wrong?

postgres -o -P does look valuable:

    postmaster -o -P -D ...

That may help.

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