Re: Upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard - PostgreSQL won't start anymore

Matthias Dietrich wrote:

 How can I dump the data from the 32bit database?  Does someone has built a postgres binary for this issue? 

You can build one yourself following the "Reverting to 32-bit Binaries" instructions at http://devoh.com/posts/2009/08/postgresql-snow-leopard (which follow up the build from source instructions at http://devoh.com/posts/2008/10/installing-postgresql-on-mac-os-x-10.5-leopard )

You probably don't want to overwrite the system PostgreSQL just yet though.  You can relocate where it compiles into with:

CFLAGS="-arch i386" ./configure --enable-thread-safety --with-bonjour --prefix=<install location>

Then run make/make install, point PGDATA toward your existing database, and start the server.

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