Hello All,
I am in a fix and need help. I am reinstalling postgresql server on my linux workstation and\ I did a filesystem backup of ../pgsql/data/*, but when I deleted the data directory and reconstructed it from my backup (without the reinstall, just to check if things would work) I started seeing errors (I mv' the data directory twice...)
The first error was "postmaster.opt.default not found in ../pgsql/data/postmaster.opt.default' and when I created an empty file it said '../pgsql/data/base/template1/pg_class not found'.
What version of PostgreSQL do you have installed? Is it the same version as the data directory that you backed up?
I had the problem once when I was experimenting with a different filesystem that I messed up the ownership/perms of the data directory.
Is it owned by the user that postmaster runs as? (pgsql or postgres depending on distribution)
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