On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Sairam Krishnamurthy <kmsram420@gmail.com> wrote:
All,
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and Postgres 8.4, I have been trying to move my data dir to another device for the past couple of days but ran into a lot of problems.
I did the following:
1. Copy the contents of /var/lib/postgresql/8.4/main to my folder. 2. Changed the data_directory in postgresql.conf.
When I start postgres using /etc/init.d script I get the following error,
* Starting PostgreSQL 8.4 database server * Error: could not exec /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/pg_ctl /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/pg_ctl start -D /media/extension/var/lib/postgresql/8.4/main/ -l /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-8.4-main.log -s -o -c config_file="/etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf" :
I tried changing the ownership of the /media/extension/var/lib/postgresql dir to <myusername>, postgres and root. Now of them worked and I keep getting the same error message.
I found a lot of similar problems online but none had a solution.