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
