Hi Adrian, yes I completely copied the config-file and data directories over.
Lonnie, I don't remember. I might not have shut down the "old" postgres, yes I set PGDATA accordingly. To sum things up, I created a situation where I would use the service to start "old" postgres and pg_ctl to start the "new" one. Thanks! -JD On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netll...@gmail.com>wrote: > Did you shut down the 'old' postgres before copying these files? > Did you (re)configure the 'new' postgres to set its $PGDATA directory > to the location of the 'new' files? > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:46 PM, JD Wong <jdmsw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I tried copying postgres over to a new directory. it was working until I > > deleted a bunch of databases from the "old" postgres. Lo and behold this > > somehow broke the "new" copy too. > > > > Now when I start with pg_ctl > > 2013-02-22 18:36:13 EST DETAIL: The database subdirectory > "base/1066060" is > > missing. > > 2013-02-22 18:36:25 EST FATAL: database "wormmine" does not exist > > 2013-02-22 18:36:25 EST DETAIL: The database subdirectory > "base/1027296" is > > missing. > > 2013-02-22 18:37:13 EST FATAL: database "wormmine-dev" does not exist > > > > and it won't start... > > > > How can I fix this? re-creating these databases with the old postgres > > didn't work... > > > > Also, why did this happen? I created a new data directory for the new > > postgres, this should be impossible.... > > > > I have no ideas left, can anyone help? > > > > Thanks in advance, >
