On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:31:45PM -0600, root wrote: > I have a postgres 7.2.2 database, without the DB_VERSION file, so I'm assuming > this is an "alternate location" - as you can tell, I'm not a DBA. Anyway, > the machine it was on got hacked, and I backed off the things I thought were > important, reinstalled the OS and put the other things, including this DB, > back into place. Problem: I don't have the /var/lib/pgsql part of my old > installation,
Exactly what did you back up? What are the contents of the directory you are trying to "attach" ? If you didn't backup a pg_clog directory, you are pretty much hosed, I think. -- Alvaro Herrera (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) "On the other flipper, one wrong move and we're Fatal Exceptions" (T.U.X.: Term Unit X - http://www.thelinuxreview.com/TUX/) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
