And also remember to use the same version of Postgres as the previous installation...
It might be helpful to post the tail of your server's log ahen it fails. Best Regards, On Jan 14, 2008 7:58 AM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] gmail | hotmail | indiatimes | yahoo }.com EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com 17° 29' 34.37"N, 78° 30' 59.76"E - Hyderabad 18° 32' 57.25"N, 73° 56' 25.42"E - Pune 37° 47' 19.72"N, 122° 24' 1.69" W - San Francisco * http://gurjeet.frihost.net Mail sent from my BlackLaptop device
