Re: pgsql 9.0.1 table corruption

On Friday, April 15, 2011 09:50:57 AM Tom Lane wrote:
> If you simply unpacked the tar archive and started a postmaster on that,
> you'd be pretty much guaranteed to get a corrupt database. The tar
> archive is not a valid snapshot by itself --- you have to replay
> whatever WAL was generated during the archiving sequence in order to get
> to a consistent database state.

I have, more than once, "moved" a PG instance from one machine to another with
the following sequence, without apparent issue. is there anything I'm missing
and/or need to be concerned with?

1) service postgresql stop;
2) rsync -vaz /var/lib/pgsql root(at)newserver:/var/lib/pgsql;
3) ssh root(at)newserver;
4) (edit postgresql.conf, set IP addresses, memory, etc)
5) service postgresql start;

This is a "done at 10 PM on Friday night" kind of process.

-Ben

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