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.
To sum things up, I created a situation where I would use the service to start "old" postgres and pg_ctl to start the "new" one.
Thanks!
-JD
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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,
