On 01/04/2014 02:13 PM, zach cruise wrote:
I am still not understanding. You have a 2008 server at a and one at b. You copied the Postgres data files from 2008 server a to 2008 server b. This did not work, so you say you restored the data directory on server b from an old copy of the data directory at b. So where did that old copy come from? > short answer - from b itself (whatever was created right after installation). > long answer - 2008 servers at a and b. postgres 9.3s at a and b. added databases to postgres-a (postgres-b is empty/new). shutdown postgres-a and b. copied data-a and b to a network shared between server-a and b. deleted data-b on server-b. copied data-a from network to server-b. > restarted postgres-a and postgres-b. postgres-a succeeds. postgres-b fails. > so deleted data on server-b. restored data-b from network ("old copy") to server-b. restarted postgres-b. postgres-b still fails.
So is there anything in the Windows system logs? Does the Task Manager show another Postgres running? -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general