You were right. It was just a matter of set chown -R postgres.postgres /var/lib/postgresql/8.3
:D :D :D Case solved :D Thanks a lot dude :D Diogo Oliveira de Melo Ciência da Computação ICMC - USP São Carlos On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marl...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Diogo Melo <dmel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > just tar -zcvf 8.3.tar.gz /mnt/sdf/var/lib/postgresql/8.3/ > > since i found a way to mount the partition on /mnt/sdf. > > first I installed postgres on a virtual machine and then I extracted the > > 8.3.tar.gz at /var/lib/postgresql . when i try to sh > > /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 start it runs the command instantly but don't > > launch anything. > > > > Is there a procedure to recover postgres databases on this occasions?? > > Pretty much what you are doing is the procedure. Check permissions on > that folder, look in the postgresql logs, look in the system logs, > etc. It'll likely say something about wrong permissions, but that's > just a guess. >