On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:37:33AM -0400, David Dollar wrote: > We recently experienced a hard media failure. It turns out our admin guys > have been doing backups by backing up the pgsql data directory, but not > prepping the db first.
What platform is this? > After a restore, when I try to start the database I get "LOG: logger > shutting down" and nothing else. This is Postgres 8.1.3. This sounds like you're looking at the wrong log. You have the syslogger set up to write the log somewhere else - you need to look in that logfile. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
