Re: Determine PG version used for initdb

Not being a postgres guru can you give me a simple plan to follow to re init
db.
I am running on linux redhat as4.
I have links to spindles for my wal and my data.
I am on 8.0.3, but did not initdb the database, so security issues have not
been addressed.
I can do a dump, initdb (this is where I am not 100% sure what to do, to get
rid of the existing intdb stuff) and do a restore.

I am guessing I would just stop postgres delete the data folder in
/var/lib/pgsql.

Go into the pgsql folder and do a initdb database name? prefer to do it
Unicode if I can get my drivers and such figured and tested (still having
serious issues there).

Re-link the wal and base folders

And I am done?

What would be the exact syntax for the initdb command?

Joel Fradkin

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-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 10:05 AM
To: Dario
Cc: Hannes Dorbath; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Determine PG version used for initdb

> That tells the server version running, but does it tell the initdb
> binary version used to init the cluster?

Normally there's not any difference between dot-release initdb's.
In this case there is; read the 8.0.3 release notes:
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/release.html#RELEASE-8-0-3
You could determine which was used by looking at the declared arguments
of the conversion functions.

regards, tom lane

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