On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:56:40AM -0700, tomtailor@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi! > > I've the following Problem and hope someone can help me. My PostgreSQL > Database were running on a Debian Linux. Some day the OS crahsed and - > here's the Problem - there is no dump file from Database. But I still > have the files in base, global, pg_clog. So I did a fresh setup and > copied the files in the pg data directory. But even I try to start via > pg_ctl fails caus: Looks like you're missing at least pg_xlog (which resetxlog might fix for you) and PGVERSION (which is just a tag file). I recommand running initdb on an empty directory and copy the stuff you do have over the top and see if that works... Keep a backup though... -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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