Re: [GENERAL] re-instalation

2001-01-20 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Tom Lane wrote: > > The problem with just moving your database to the new location is that > > there are location dependencies built into it when you use initdb to > > initialize it, so it's not reliable. > > AFAIK, there are *not* any location dependencies in a standard PG >

Re: [GENERAL] re-instalation

2001-01-20 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Martin A. Marques wrote: > > You probably should have used pg_dumpall to backup the databases and > > restore them after the rebuild. That's a more reliable way of migrating > > your data. > > The problem was that the server got downgraded from Solaris 8 to Solaris 7 > and t

Re: [GENERAL] re-instalation

2001-01-19 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Martin A. Marques wrote: > I had to re-compile and re-install postgresql-7.1-beta1. > I changed the directory where it was installed from /usr/local/pgsql to > /dbs/postgres/. After re-installing I copied the data/ directory that was > under the old instalation to where I hav