Did you shut down the 'old' postgres before copying these files? Did you (re)configure the 'new' postgres to set its $PGDATA directory to the location of the 'new' files? On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:46 PM, JD Wong <jdmswong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I tried copying postgres over to a new directory. it was working until I > deleted a bunch of databases from the "old" postgres. Lo and behold this > somehow broke the "new" copy too. > > Now when I start with pg_ctl > 2013-02-22 18:36:13 EST DETAIL: The database subdirectory "base/1066060" is > missing. > 2013-02-22 18:36:25 EST FATAL: database "wormmine" does not exist > 2013-02-22 18:36:25 EST DETAIL: The database subdirectory "base/1027296" is > missing. > 2013-02-22 18:37:13 EST FATAL: database "wormmine-dev" does not exist > > and it won't start... > > How can I fix this? re-creating these databases with the old postgres > didn't work... > > Also, why did this happen? I created a new data directory for the new > postgres, this should be impossible.... > > I have no ideas left, can anyone help? > > Thanks in advance, -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
