Re: [ADMIN] No databases visible on pg 8.3 server

2012-11-20 Thread Pat Heuvel
Thanks Craig, I've already done that. On 11/11/2012 9:15 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: On 11/11/2012 08:27 AM, Pat Heuvel wrote: 2012-11-05 23:03:07 EST LOG: could not open file "pg_xlog/00010285002E" (log file 645, segment 46): No such file or directory If you haven't already, before

Re: [ADMIN] No databases visible on pg 8.3 server

2012-11-20 Thread Pat Heuvel
Gday Lukasz, You're right - the service does run. However, no databases are visible. I would love to be able to do a pg_dump/restore! Can you tell me what might make postgresql think there are no databases when the file pg_database and the file 1262 both show databases? This is running on a

Re: [ADMIN] No databases visible on pg 8.3 server

2012-11-11 Thread Craig Ringer
On 11/11/2012 08:27 AM, Pat Heuvel wrote: > > 2012-11-05 23:03:07 EST LOG: could not open file > "pg_xlog/00010285002E" (log file 645, segment 46): No such > file or directory If you haven't already, before you do ANYTHING ELSE, take a file-system level copy of the PostgreSQL database

Re: [ADMIN] No databases visible on pg 8.3 server

2012-11-10 Thread Lukasz Brodziak
Hello, >From what you have written I assume you are able to properly start postgresql service. First thing I would try would be trying to connect to the db with psql and run some queries mostly SELECTS to check if table data is ok. If successful then run a pg_dump on the db and restore it on a fre

[ADMIN] No databases visible on pg 8.3 server

2012-11-10 Thread Pat Heuvel
Gday, My customer has a large database running under 8.3. I would love to upgrade, but that's a story for another thread :) User called me and told me the database was out of space. I managed to recover a little space by moving the text logs (pg_log) to another drive. I then had a process r