Well, they are actually streaming replication slaves, and I boogered up the rsync command, so there they are. I diffed the directories from the master to the slave, and think I will go ahead and delete all the files that don't appear in both places and see what happens. Worst case, I have to set them back up again. No big deal... Thanks! - Ian On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:24 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/20/11 12:14 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote: >> >> Well, Ian isn't talking about removing data. What he was >> asking (I believe) is how to remove from the data directory >> files which got nothing to do with the database in question >> (but probably look like database files because, say, someone >> copied*another* database into the directory ;-) > > pg_dumpall > stop postgres > save the .conf files > wipe $PGDATA > initdb > restore the .conf files > restart postgres > restore the dumpall > > -- > john r pierce N 37, W 122 > santa cruz ca mid-left coast > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
