Re: [GENERAL] Uninstall mess Postgresql 7.3.4, 8.1.4 on Redhat 9

2007-09-21 Thread MargaretGillon
Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/19/2007 10:12:26 AM: It wouldn't, but your old data still need to be dumped and restored; and without a running 8.1, that won't help you. Unless you mean that you'd install 8.2.x and load from a backup. Thank you for your help. I wasn't able to

Re: [GENERAL] Uninstall mess Postgresql 7.3.4, 8.1.4 on Redhat 9

2007-09-19 Thread MargaretGillon
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 03:06:32PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: account and the system's knowledge of the posgresql 8.1.4 software. The system will no longer run 8.1.4 even when I go to the /bin/ to run the commands. The data is still present and so is the 8.1.4 software. I remade

Re: [GENERAL] Uninstall mess Postgresql 7.3.4, 8.1.4 on Redhat 9

2007-09-19 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 08:52:29AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the system boots there is a FAILED error when the server tries to load postgresql8. If I manually run /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql8 start the message is standard in must be tty

Re: [GENERAL] Uninstall mess Postgresql 7.3.4, 8.1.4 on Redhat 9

2007-09-19 Thread MargaretGillon
This suggsts your init script is broken. You ought to be able to test whether postgres will run properly by setting PGDATA correctly, and then running /path/to/pg8.x/bin/pg_ctl start. Whether postgres will run is not exactly the same question as whether your init script is correct. The

[GENERAL] Uninstall mess Postgresql 7.3.4, 8.1.4 on Redhat 9

2007-09-18 Thread MargaretGillon
I had two versions of postgresql running on a Redhat 9 server. Today I shut down the 7.3.4 version and uninstalled it using the RPM's. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, this deleted the postgres user account and the system's knowledge of the posgresql 8.1.4 software. The system will no