Re: Forgot to dump old data before re-installing machine

>> As for the real problem (on the same hardware), when you rebuilt
>> Postgres on your new machine did you change any of the configure
>> options that MacPorts would have used from what would have been used
>> previously (I assume they can be overridden)?
>
> There's not that much that can be overridden that would affect the
> layout of pg_control.  The only other thing I can think of at the
> moment is that moving from 32-bit to 64-bit time_t can screw things
> up --- but that shouldn't affect the interpretation of the pg_control
> version number, which as already noted certainly looks like it's the
> wrong endianness.
>
> Stefan, could you post the actual pg_control file as a binary
> attachment?
>

The "old" pg_control file is attached...


So, I am one step further, that is, I installed Tiger - and then
Postgres 8.1 - on a PPC MacMini.

After running initdb the postmaster started smoothly. I stopped it,
copied my database files into the same location, started the
postmaster again, and then got this error message:

    schwarzers-mac-mini:/usr/local/pgsql schwarzer$ /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl
-D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l postgres.log start
    pg_ctl: could not open PID file "/usr/local/pgsql/data/
postmaster.pid": Permission denied


As one can see from the following listing, there is no
"postmaster.pid". And the settings seemed to be (for me) the same as
in the old database tree:


schwarzers-mac-mini:/usr/local/pgsql schwarzer$ ls -l
total 0
drwx------   16 postgres  admin   544 Jan 23 18:23 data
drwx------   15 postgres  admin   510 Jan 23 17:50 data.orig


schwarzers-mac-mini:/usr/local/pgsql/data postgres$ ls -l
total 64
-rw-------    1 postgres  admin      4 Jan 23 18:23 PG_VERSION
drwx------   11 postgres  admin    374 Jan 23 18:23 base
drwx------   27 postgres  admin    918 Jan 23 18:23 global
drwx------   23 postgres  admin    782 Jan 23 18:23 pg_clog
-rw-------    1 postgres  admin   3396 Jan 23 18:23 pg_hba.conf
-rw-------    1 postgres  admin   1460 Jan 23 18:23 pg_ident.conf
drwx------    4 postgres  admin    136 Jan 23 18:23 pg_multixact
drwx------    3 postgres  admin    102 Jan 23 18:23 pg_subtrans
drwx------    2 postgres  admin     68 Jan 23 18:23 pg_tblspc
drwx------    2 postgres  admin     68 Jan 23 18:23 pg_twophase
drwx------   11 postgres  admin    374 Jan 23 18:23 pg_xlog
-rw-------    1 postgres  admin  13614 Jan 23 18:23 postgresql.conf
-rw-------    1 postgres  admin     74 Jan 23 18:23 postmaster.opts


schwarzers-mac-mini:/usr/local/pgsql/data.orig postgres$ ls -l
total 64
-rw-------    1 postgres  admin      4 Jan 23 17:49 PG_VERSION
drwx------    5 postgres  admin    170 Jan 23 17:49 base
drwx------   28 postgres  admin    952 Jan 23 17:50 global
drwx------    3 postgres  admin    102 Jan 23 17:49 pg_clog
-rw-------    1 postgres  admin   3396 Jan 23 17:49 pg_hba.conf
-rw-------    1 postgres  admin   1460 Jan 23 17:49 pg_ident.conf
drwx------    4 postgres  admin    136 Jan 23 17:49 pg_multixact
drwx------    3 postgres  admin    102 Jan 23 17:49 pg_subtrans
drwx------    2 postgres  admin     68 Jan 23 17:49 pg_tblspc
drwx------    2 postgres  admin     68 Jan 23 17:49 pg_twophase
drwx------    4 postgres  admin    136 Jan 23 17:49 pg_xlog
-rw-------    1 postgres  admin  13680 Jan 23 17:49 postgresql.conf
-rw-------    1 postgres  admin     49 Jan 23 17:50 postmaster.opts



Thanks for any hints...

Stef