Fedora Core 4 Upgrade hosed Postgresql

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 6/6/06, Bob Ambroso <bambroso at gmail.com> wrote:
> I did as you instructed... Installed FC2 on another computer did a
> filesystem backup of the "upgraded" data folder and moved it to the new/old
> FC2 system. Performed a cursory configuration on the 7.4 postgres and then I
> un-tarred the backup into the data folder. Started up the postgres server
> and got no errors. I performed the pg_dumpall and moved the dumpall.dmp file
> to the "upgraded" or 8.x system. Now I am really in a loop because I cannot
> restore the dump file unless the server is running but it will not run
> because the data format is different.. I would assume I have to nuke the
> thing back to bare bones and then create the old databases and then perform
> a restore.... Does this sound right??
>
> How do I take the upgraded postgres server back to bare bones.. initdb
> again??

Delete the contents of /var/lib/pgsql, then "service postgres start",
and then import the DB dump.


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