Re: REINDEX "is not a btree"

On Jul 4, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 15:00 +0100, Vanessa Lopez wrote:
>> I don't know much about postgre, I have no clue what else I can do.
>> Please, please any help is very very much appreciated I have lots of
>> databases and months of work in postgre (also lots of backups for the
>> data in /data)
>
> When you say "in /data", do you mean the directory that contains the
> directories "pg_xlog", "base", "global", "pg_clog", etc ?
>
> Did you back up and restore the WHOLE data directory at once? Or
> did you
> restore only parts of it?


And how exactly did you make the backups? You can't simply take a
filesystem copy of a running database; that won't work.
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