You ought to be able to just start up Postgres pointing to the existing data. So assuming the
data directory is /db, just doing 'postmaster -D /db' should work.
Provided, of course, you installed the exact version that was there before, with the same user/uid
as before.
On Nov 11, 2003, at 9:51 PM, Colm De Barra wrote:
Hi--------------------
I'm in charge of a linux DB server running postgres 7.3.2.
The OS disk recently died taking the postgres installation
with it but the data directory of postgres was on a seperate SCSI
disk and is still OK.
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I've put in a new OS disk, installed linux on it again, mounted the data
disk, and installed postgres up as far as the "make install" stage.�
Can anyone tell me where to go from here to get postgres to run with the
old DB ?? is all the DB structure information stored in the data directory ?
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Any help would be appreciated
Colm
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