It might be helpful to post the tail of your server's log ahen it fails.
Best Regards,
On Jan 14, 2008 7:58 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Stefan Schwarzer <stefan.schwarzer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:Should work, if you've got the whole $PGDATA directory tree. Maybe
> I re-installed my machine and "forgot" to dump my database(s). I
> naturally still have the whole database folders. For the moment I
> installed the "old" postgres version (8.1) to be able to read my data.
> But how can I read them? It seems that it doesn't work that I just
> overwrite the new database folder with the old one... Would be too
> simple, I guess...
you forgot to stop the postmaster while copying the backup into place?
regards, tom lane
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