Re: How to safely remove a corrupted cluster? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Marco Ippolito
Subject Re: How to safely remove a corrupted cluster?
Date
Msg-id CAFegzBTcFzCKQ8nYtUy=wgaQzLVRWGag3ZJQbBrsQx0m03VP1Q@mail.gmail.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to How to safely remove a corrupted cluster?  (Marco Ippolito <ippolito.marco@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
Solved by repeating the execution of (base) postgres@pc:~$ pg_dropcluster --stop 11 fabmnet :

(base) postgres@pc:~$ pg_dropcluster --stop 11 fabmnet
Error: specified cluster does not exist

Marco

Il giorno gio 19 set 2019 alle ore 13:02 Marco Ippolito <ippolito.marco@gmail.com> ha scritto:
If the saying "to learn you have to make mistakes", I'm "learning"...:

I removed a cluster's folder without using pg_dropcluster... sio now I have a corrupted cluster. How can I safely remove it?

(base) marco@pc:~$ pg_lsclusters
Ver Cluster Port Status Owner     Data directory                 Log file
11  fabmnet 5433 down   <unknown> /var/lib/postgresql/11/fabmnet /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-11-fabmnet.log
11  main    5432 online postgres  /var/lib/postgresql/11/main    /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-11-main.log

(base) marco@pc:~$ pg_dropcluster 11 fabmnet
Warning: corrupted cluster: data directory does not exist
Warning: systemd was not informed about the removed cluster yet. Operations like "service postgresql start" might fail. To fix, run:
  sudo systemctl daemon-reload
(base) marco@pc:~$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
[sudo] password for marco:
(base) marco@pc:~$ pg_dropcluster 11 fabmnet
Warning: corrupted cluster: data directory does not exist
Warning: systemd was not informed about the removed cluster yet. Operations like "service postgresql start" might fail. To fix, run:
  sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Marco

pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Steve Litt
Date:
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL License
Next
From: Matthias Apitz
Date:
Subject: Re: PGPASSWORD in crypted form, for example BlowFish or SHA-256