Re: broke postgres, how to fix?? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From JD Wong
Subject Re: broke postgres, how to fix??
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Msg-id CAGuHHn8S1-2_FTnAh7dHDEpGe+eExbPx_2=n8KfnqLcjdRKpsQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: broke postgres, how to fix??  (Lonni J Friedman <netllama@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: broke postgres, how to fix??  (Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>)
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Hi Adrian,

That's guaranteed to break everything badly.
>

Even if I "read only style" copied the files? Do you mind elaborating on
why this happens?  ( or point me to relevant documentation )

Thanks,
-JD

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:02 PM, JD Wong <jdmswong@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Adrian, yes I completely copied the config-file and data directories
> > over.
> >
> > Lonnie, I don't remember.  I might not have shut down the "old" postgres,
> > yes I set PGDATA accordingly.
>


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>
 That's guaranteed to break everything badly.
>

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