Re: accidentally deleted data directory - Mailing list pgsql-admin

 

See if there are processes running for user "postgres" that look

like database processes and kill them.

 

Then try again.

 

What exactly is the error message?

 

Yours,

Laurenz Albe

 

 

Hi

 

 

ps –edf shows no postgres processes:

-bash-4.1$ ps -edf | grep postgres

root      6412  6249  0 18:22 pts/0    00:00:00 su - postgres

postgres  6413  6412  0 18:22 pts/0    00:00:00 -bash

postgres  6465  6413  1 18:27 pts/0    00:00:00 ps -edf

postgres  6466  6413  0 18:27 pts/0    00:00:00 grep postgres

 

 

Ran the following command as postgres user

-bash-4.1$ /usr/pgsql-9.2/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.2/data

-bash-4.1$

 

pgstartup.log is empty

 

-bash-4.1$ pwd

/var/lib/pgsql/9.2

-bash-4.1$ ls

backups  data  logfile  pgstartup.log

-bash-4.1$ ls -al

total 20

drwx------.  4 postgres postgres 4096 Sep 23 18:21 .

drwx------.  3 postgres postgres 4096 Sep 23 18:18 ..

drwx------.  2 postgres postgres 4096 Apr  1 19:41 backups

drwx------. 15 postgres postgres 4096 Sep 23 18:28 data

-rw-------.  1 postgres postgres  409 Sep 22 11:44 logfile

-rw-------   1 postgres postgres    0 Sep 23 18:20 pgstartup.log

-bash-4.1$

 

Is there something else I can try?

 

I don’t have any data to restore. This is an installation which is only a couple of weeks old. I can uninstall and reinstall if that is easier.

 

 

Where can I find the uninstaller ?

Thanks

Thara.