Hello, it now the third machine where i have to do the manipulation by hand, and when forgotten it is realy a pain....
each time i launch a dselect there's the horror of the possibility of an upgrade of the postgres DB.... often on launching the upgrade the thought comes arghhhh did i do a backup of the base??? because if not i found no way to recover the base again.... why does the pre install script hasn't the simple line pg_dumpall >backup and the post install the line psql -e template1<backup????? it would prevent stupid users like me to have disastrous updates and lots of nightmares trying to recover lost databases..... BTW is there any way (except using cp and vi) to recover a database across postgres versions? The way described in the HOWTO ends each time with the message the postmaster isn't started, which is a cat biting in its tail, since the postmaster couldn't be started due to obsolete base.... -- ciao bboett ============================================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett http://erm1.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett =============================================================== the total amount of intelligence on earth is constant. human population is growing....
