In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
wheel  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

% I copied all of the database 'parts' to the new 'base' directory. I am 
% not sure how carefully anyone has read what I wrote. But it's so simple 
% what I'm asking about, or so it would seem to me.

As several people have pointed out, you can't do this.

% In another install of pg (assuming BM is not reading this and won't be 
% upset by abbreviations) there was a database at this location:
% 
% c:\postgresql\data\base\16404 
% 
% at least I think that is a database folder, I've never read anything 
% about where/how postgres stores the files for a database. Under the 
% 16404 folder are many other folders, I think they comprise that 
% particular database.
% 
% On a separate postgres installation, ie different server, I want to move 
% that 16404 folder (with child dirs etc, what I assume are it's parts) to 
% what amounts to the same location:
% 
% c:\postgresql\data\base\16404 

As several people have pointed out, this will not work. You can copy
c:\postgresql\data and everything under it, but you can't copy
individual subdirectories and have it work.

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Patrick TJ McPhee
North York  Canada
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