> On Jul 28, 2024, at 6:40 AM, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > That's bad advice. Very bad advice. > That is, unless you are ready to delete the cluster and run a new "initdb" after an OS crash. Exactly. > You are wrong: it is not the database that is broken after a crash, but the entire cluster. Good clarification. I personally have never had occasion to move a partial cluster, so my use of "database" in my question was sloppy, I meant "cluster". So yes, I'd delete the cluster and initdb if I ever actually had an OS crash during a pg_restore--which in 20 years of using PG has never happened. I suppose it might matter more if one were forced to run one's db on an unstable platform ;-)
