| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Allison <tom(at)tacocat(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Debian problem... |
| Date: | 2007-09-11 01:04:31 |
| Message-ID: | 20070911010431.GB11645@tamriel.snowman.net |
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* Tom Allison (tom(at)tacocat(dot)net) wrote:
> I hosed up postgresql by deleting the data directory.
erp. That's no good.
> So I thought I would just uninstall and reinstall postgres using Debian
> packages.
> Now I have nothing working.
Huh, odd, that'd normally work, I think.
> Wondering if anyone here has any suggestions on what to do with a Debian
> installation.
Do a full purge of the package and then reinstall it? I could maybe see
an issue if you didn't purge it due to the leftover symlinks in /etc...
You could also try doing a manual pg_createcluster, possibly with a
pg_dropcluster before it to make sure everything gets cleaned out.
Enjoy,
Stephen
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