Hello, I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10. After the OS upgrade I choose to upgrade software as well (all quite automated in ubuntu). Previously I was running postgres 8.2, but now I have postgres 8.3 (and hopefully 8.2 as well). I can run 8.3 and see the dbs (the default ones only; not mine) with psql. But when I try to start 8.2 nothing happens: $ /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 start * Starting PostgreSQL 8.3 database server [ OK ] $ /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 stop * Stopping PostgreSQL 8.3 database server [ OK ] $ /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.2 start $ /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.2 stop $ You can see I get no response when trying to start 8.2. What can I do? To complicate matters I was using pg_dumpall to daily backup the db and then used rdiff-backup to keep increments. For some reason on August 1, 2008 pg_dumpall went from 50MB output (correct) to a few lines (!?). So I can't simply restore to 8.3 (the last one is from six months ago :(. I do have an image of the hard drive (using partimage) from before the upgrade, but that would be getting pretty desperate to have to go back there. Bryan -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin