Re: restore database from bare files

Hi

Maybe you must reset the WAL's
( http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/app-pgresetxlog.html )
after restoring from tarball if postgres doesn't start.

Am Donnerstag, den 30.06.2005, 07:34 +0200 schrieb jehan:
> So I must one way or another run a 7.3, restore the file from the
> tarball as is (just put them back to /var/lib/pgsql), the databases
> should be running correctly then (?), then pg_dump it , upgrade to 7.4
> and restore from the pg_dump .
> before running in all this (and I still don't know how I will be able to
> get a 7.3 on RHEL4 ... ?) is that the correct procedure ?
> thanks

yes, this is the correct way :).

Martin