Stefan Schwarzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I re-installed my machine and "forgot" to dump my database(s). I
> naturally still have the whole database folders. For the moment I
> installed the "old" postgres version (8.1) to be able to read my data.
> But how can I read them? It seems that it doesn't work that I just
> overwrite the new database folder with the old one... Would be too
> simple, I guess...
Should work, if you've got the whole $PGDATA directory tree. Maybe
you forgot to stop the postmaster while copying the backup into place?
regards, tom lane
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