[ale] perl/postgresql question

[Geoffrey Myers]

Jim Kinney wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Geoffrey Myers 
> <lists at serioustechnology.com <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com>> wrote:
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>     This is likely the approach I'll have to take, but searching for a hex
>     value in an ascii dump is questionable?  Not sure what I'd be
>     searching for.
> 
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> I don't think it's a real hex value. I think it's an ascii text string 
> that just happens to "look like" a hex value. I've seen that screw up 
> before but I can't recall the process. 10 years ago is pretty fuzzy...

Quick update on this issue. It appears that the test database I was 
running against had to postmasters running against it.  That would seem 
to guarantee database corruption, thus, I plan to reload the database 
from a known good production backup and revisit this issue.

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