>>On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 03:06:32PM -0700, MargaretGillon@chromalloy.com wrote: >> account and the system's knowledge of the posgresql 8.1.4 software. The >> system will no longer run 8.1.4 even when I go to the /bin/ to run the >> commands. The data is still present and so is the 8.1.4 software. I remade
>What happens then? Error messages? It's hard to tell what the >problem might be.
When the system boots there is a FAILED error when the server tries to load postgresql8.
If I manually run /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql8 start the message is standard in must be tty [FAILED]
>> the postgres account on the server and gave it permission's to 8.1.4 >> directories but still no dice. I have multiple backups of the database >> that are okay.
> How did you remake the account? Same UID? I don't know what the UID was. I used adduser to remake the postgres Redhat account.
>> Would my best bet be to download and install 8.2.5 and import the backup? >> Or do I need to get 8.1.4 running, and how do I do that?
>Adding 8.2.x to your headaches won't make it better, for sure -- it's >just another layer of incompatibility.
If versions can run in parallel why would installing the new version affect the 8.1.4 version?