accidentally deleted data directory

From: Thara Vadakkeveedu <tharagv(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: accidentally deleted data directory
Date: 2013-09-23 22:36:22
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See if there are processes running for user "postgres" that look
like database processes and kill them.
 
Then try again.
 
What exactly is the error message?
 
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
 
 
Hi
 
 
ps –edf shows no postgres processes:
-bash-4.1$ ps -edf | grep postgres
root      6412  6249  0 18:22 pts/0    00:00:00 su - postgres
postgres  6413  6412  0 18:22 pts/0    00:00:00 -bash
postgres  6465  6413  1 18:27 pts/0    00:00:00 ps -edf
postgres  6466  6413  0 18:27 pts/0    00:00:00 grep postgres
 
 
Ran the following command as postgres user
-bash-4.1$ /usr/pgsql-9.2/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.2/data
-bash-4.1$
 
pgstartup.log is empty
 
-bash-4.1$ pwd
/var/lib/pgsql/9.2
-bash-4.1$ ls
backups  data  logfile  pgstartup.log
-bash-4.1$ ls -al
total 20
drwx------.  4 postgres postgres 4096 Sep 23 18:21 .
drwx------.  3 postgres postgres 4096 Sep 23 18:18 ..
drwx------.  2 postgres postgres 4096 Apr  1 19:41 backups
drwx------. 15 postgres postgres 4096 Sep 23 18:28 data
-rw-------.  1 postgres postgres  409 Sep 22 11:44 logfile
-rw-------   1 postgres postgres    0 Sep 23 18:20 pgstartup.log
-bash-4.1$
 
Is there something else I can try?
 
I don’t have any data to restore. This is an installation which is only a couple of weeks old. I can uninstall and reinstall if that is easier.
 
 
Where can I find the uninstaller ?
Thanks
Thara.

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