Re: [ADMIN] Re: I screwed it up, my installation :(

Download and install it from source, it takes about 5 minutes and it's
_absolutely_ worth it..

-Mitch


----- Original Message -----
From: "AlphaByte" <alan@alphabyte.co.nz>
To: "pgsql list - admin" <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>; "pgsql list -
general" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Re: [GENERAL] I screwed it up, my installation :(


> Thanks John,
>
> I tried your suggestion but it made no difference, and
> whilst I wiped the egg off my face I reinstalled from the
> 6.5 CD after uninstalling 7.0 as root. So its all happy now.
>
> I guess with my current configuration it ain't gonna work
> under RedHat 6.1, but I am going to wait till a proven
> version of RedHat 7.x comes out before I upgrade.
>
> Cheers
> Alan
>
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, John Clark L. Naldoza wrote regarding
> "[ADMIN] Re: [GENERAL] I screwed it up, my installation
> :(": > Hello Alan, >
> >
> > From /usr/doc/postgresql-7.0.2/README.rpm it says...;-)
> >
> > NOTE: The 7.0 RPMs are only being built under RedHat 6.2! They
> > may or may not work under RedHat 6.0 or 6.1.
> >
> > But like you, I have come across the exact same thing...;-)  _IF_ you
> > don't have any real data and are willing to start from scratch...  try
> > deleting all files and directories under
> >
> > /var/lib/pgsql
> >
> > and re-run your postgresql start-up script....  Postgresql should create
> > an empty database for your perusal...;-)
> >
> > If you have some important data...  Well then, I
> strongly recommend that > you back-up your data from the
> >
> > /var/lib/pgsql
> >
> > directory before proceeding to delete all file and directories under
> > it...;-)
> >
> > Hope that helps...;-)
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> > John Clark
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