Richard Huxton wrote:
> You're close - the only thing it was complaining about was the
missing
> "postgres" database. That's because it defaults to using the same
> database as the username. Try
>postgres -D copy_of_old_data_dir template1
>
> Or use the name of your old database.
Woohoo! Th
"Don Doumakes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> latest version of postgresql is incompatible with 7.2.x, so I compiled
> postgresql-7.2.7 and attempted to run
> postgres -D copy_of_old_data_dir
You probably wanted to say "postmaster" not "postgres". The quoted
result is about what I'd expect from
Don Doumakes wrote:
I own a server that was recently cracked by, I presume, an incompetent
script kiddie. Minutes after he bravely tagged the web site, the
server went down hard and would not boot. I've built a new system.
I need to recover a postgresql 7.2 database from the old hard drive,
which
