Hi. I was in the same situation a while ago, and compiling PG from source solved the issue. After installation is complete just run > postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/ and everything should be back as before. Andrea. On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 12:19 -0400, Trefethen, Zachary J wrote: > Hello – > > > > I searched through the archives but didn’t find a solution to the > exact situation I am in – please help if you can. > > > > had a server go down (running RHEL3), don’t have one of my databases > backed up, but have the /var/lib/pgsql/ directory backed up. > > > > I set up a new server and installed postgres on it, then untar’d > my /var/lib/pgsql files into the new server, to attempt to restore the > databases, but now postgresql won’t start. > > > > [root@ew root]# service rhdb start > > Starting PostgreSQL - Red Hat Edition service: [FAILED] > > > > Any ideas on what might be preventing the service from starting? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Josh > > >
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