Re: How to re-own db cluster - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Peter Childs
Subject Re: How to re-own db cluster
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Msg-id a2de01dd0802150237w60873ad6sf69342ac6acfeea4@mail.gmail.com
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In response to How to re-own db cluster  ("Vikram Vincent" <vincentvikram@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: How to re-own db cluster  (Vikram Vincent <vincentvikram@gmail.com>)
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On 15/02/2008, Vikram Vincent <vincentvikram@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I was trying to install a student information system called Centre which failed to connect to postgres for reasons I have still been unable to isolate. In order to restart the entire procedure of installation of database and Centre, I removed the 'postgres' user and group that owned the database and then readded them only to get the following error:
"Stopping PostgreSQL 8.3 database server: main
Error: The cluster is owned by user id 110which does not exist anymore
failed!"
How can I re-own the cluster? I cannot uninstall the postgresql-8.3 deb using 'dpkg --purge postgesql-8.3'? Reinstalling gives similar configuration errors. I use Debian 'Lenny'.
Thank you.
Regards,

Re-create the postgres user with the right user id. I believe that should be "adduser -UID 110 postgres" there are more complex answers but this is probably the simplest.

Regards

PEter

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