Tom -- Thanks for suggestion. We'll give it a try. Greg W. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thu 8/11/2005 7:07 AM To: Gregory S. Williamson Cc: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [ADMIN] restoring an old database to a new instance -- possible ? "Gregory S. Williamson" <gsw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Using PostSQL 7.4 on a linux server, we have one postgres instance with two databases, "gex_runtime" and "mq_geoloc." We had a mishap in which we ran out of disk space. The failure occured in writing to the gex_runtime database. > Then an unfortunate slip of an admin's keyboard led to the deletion of the gex_runtime data itself under the $PGDATA directory. As far as I can tell the mq_geoloc database files (about 3 gigs worth) were undamaged. > We moved the mq_geoloc files to a safe location, and now have taken a copy of the runtime database from another server and recreated our server as far as the runtime database goes. > My question is whether there is anyway of retrieving the old geoloc database ? Or is my reading of these files total out-of-line with reality ? If you saved the *whole* $PGDATA directory tree including pg_clog and so on, then there's nothing at all wrong with the mq_geoloc database. Just don't try to connect to gex_runtime. I'd fire up a postmaster and pg_dump mq_geoloc, then reload that data into your new installation. regards, tom lane !DSPAM:42fb5baa311789077918311!
