PG_XLOG

TERENYI Balazs wrote:

Hi!

How can I make pg_xlog files human readable? I have forgotten to switch on
the debug_print_query option and somehow rows were deleted from a
database. I don't know how.

You can't, really. If you haven't vacuumed, you can modify tqual.c,
function HeapTupleSatisfiesSnapshot() to always return true, recompile
and install that binary, and a SELECT will then show all the rows.

Make a backup first, and be sure you use that modified binary only for
during recovery.

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