Re: broke postgres, how to fix??

[JD Wong <jdmswong@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adrian,

That's guaranteed to break everything badly.

Even if I "read only style" copied the files? Do you mind elaborating on why this happens?  ( or point me to relevant documentation )

Thanks,

-JD

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:02 PM, JD Wong <jdmswong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Adrian, yes I completely copied the config-file and data directories
> over.
>
> Lonnie, I don't remember.  I might not have shut down the "old" postgres,
> yes I set PGDATA accordingly.

 

 

That's guaranteed to break everything badly.