Re: [ADMIN] recovery from server crash

2004-07-01 Thread mike g
Are you sure you have the raw database files? The /home directory is not where they are normally installed by default... If those really are the database files I believe you can try to reinstall postgres following the normal installation instructions but do not do the initdb step. Skip to starti

[ADMIN] recovery from server crash

2004-07-01 Thread Debs
I have a set of database files from PostgreSQL where the root partition crashed but the /home was saved. How do I remount these databases with a new installation of the O/S and database executables? N.B. I _don't_ have SQL dumps, just the actual raw database files themselves thanks in advance D