Re: Error starting backend - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Robert Treat
Subject Re: Error starting backend
Date
Msg-id 1054221640.5914.2377.camel@camel
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In response to Re: Error starting backend  (Jason Lee <jason@theleehouse.net>)
Responses Re: Error starting backend
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Hmm... I'm thinking you either have a version mismatch or perhaps
there's an issue with your recovery process. can you initidb a new
location with the proper local settings, then copy over the data dir to
that new location?  If that doesn't work, post the steps you took to
restore.

Robert Treat

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 10:48, Jason Lee wrote:
> Any thoughts on this?  I'm at a loss on what to try next.  I appreciate any help
> anyone can give. :P
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> jason wrote:
>
> > I had a hard drive die on me.  In rebuilding my system, I found out that my
> > backup process wasn't working correctly, so I don't have any dumps that I can
> > just load into the new setup.  I was able, however, to save the data directory
> > from the old drive.  If I try to start the backend up with that data dir,
> > though, I get this error:
> >
> > PANIC:  The database cluster was initialized with LC_COLLATE 'en_US.UTF-8',
> >         which is not recognized by setlocale().
> >         It looks like you need to initdb.
> >
> > Any idea how I can get around that?  Thanks a lot!
> >
> > jason
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