I followed the preferred way to migrate the data
and ran into this problem. So i guess I am stuck here and cant get
any help from the docs. Thanks, Sairam Krishnamurthy +1 612 859 8161 On 02/15/2011 04:59 PM, Frederiko Costa wrote: You might find something in the documentation about migrating the data directory to another server. ~Fred Linkedin profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/frederikocosta On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Sairam Krishnamurthy <kmsram420@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Frederiko, I will try that. I was hoping to have a better solution than to reinstall postgres. Thanks, Sairam Krishnamurthy +1 612 859 8161 On 02/15/2011 04:56 PM, Frederiko Costa wrote: What I meant was that when you install postgresql, you initialize the area where your data directory will be. There you have the database, config files, logs, etc. Before you restore the DB into the new pgsql, as far as I'm aware, you have to create/init this area. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Sairam Krishnamurthy <kmsram420@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Can you explain a bit? I dint get what you mean data area. Thanks, Sairam Krishnamurthy +1 612 859 8161 On 02/15/2011 04:09 PM, Frederiko Costa wrote: I would recommend to create the data area in the destination pgsql server and dump the source database into it, rather than copying the data directory. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Sairam Krishnamurthy <kmsram420@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: All, I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and Postgres 8.4, I have been trying to move my data dir to another device for the past couple of days but ran into a lot of problems. I did the following: 1. Copy the contents of /var/lib/postgresql/8.4/main to my folder. 2. Changed the data_directory in postgresql.conf. When I start postgres using /etc/init.d script I get the following error, * Starting PostgreSQL 8.4 database server Â* Error: could not exec /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/pg_ctl /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/pg_ctl start -D /media/extension/var/lib/postgresql/8.4/main/ -l /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-8.4-main.log -s -o Â-c config_file="/etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf" : I tried changing the ownership of the /media/extension/var/lib/postgresql dir to <myusername>, postgres and root. Now of them worked and I keep getting the same error message. I found a lot of similar problems online but none had a solution. Can someone help me with this? TIA Thanks, Sairam Krishnamurthy +1 612 859 8161 -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin |
