"David A. Ulevitch" <davidu@everydns.net> writes: > I did the normal debian binary install of postgresql-server and copies > everything from the old server's /var/lib/postgres to the new > /var/lib/postgres. I then copied everything from /etc/postgresql from the > old server to the new server too. (/etc was also fine in the crash) After > chown'ing all the files to `chown -R postgres.postgres /var/lib/postgres` > I tried to login. Uh, was the new machine's postmaster running while you did all this? You would certainly want the postmaster down while you overwrite /var/lib/postgres ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
