Fedora Core 4 Upgrade hosed Postgresql

[Bob Ambroso]

it worked.. Thanks for taking the time and you can bet I will become very
intimate with the pg_dump command set!

Take care...

\Bob

On 6/6/06, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.dmpfile
> > 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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