Is there a way to recover deleted records if database has not been vacuumed?

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Frank Church <vfclists@gmail.com> wrote:

I am using Django to develop an app and I think I must have done a syncdb
(which deletes all records) without realizing it.

I have not vacuumed that database and I have also made a copy of the data
directory.

Is there some way to recover the deleted records?

You can perform Point in time recovery to recover the deleted records,if
you have enabled database in WAL archiving mode.

Below URL provides more information of the Point-in-time recovery on
PostgreSQL

http://www.mkyong.com/database/postgresql-point-in-time-recovery-incremental-backup/

Thanks & Regards,

Raghu Ram

On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 10:51:33AM +0100, Frank Church wrote:

I am using Django to develop an app and I think I must have done a syncdb
(which deletes all records) without realizing it.
I have not vacuumed that database and I have also made a copy of the data
directory.
Is there some way to recover the deleted records?

check this - maybe it can help:
http://www.depesz.com/2012/04/04/lets-talk-dirty/

Best regards,

depesz

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