Re: Uninstalled working db by mistake

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 05:44:27PM +0000, Howard News wrote:
> Thanks David,
>
> Unfortunately my cluster wont start - I am not entirely sure on the state of
> postgresql-9.0, this is the output from dpkd --list
>
>
>
> rc postgresql-9.0 9.0.4-1~lucid1 object-relational SQL database, version
> 9.0

Per the heading printed by dpkg --list, this means the package is in the
removed state, but it's config files are still present. "apt-get install
postgresql-9.0" should be all required.

David

> ii postgresql-9.1 9.1.20-1.pgdg1 object-relational SQL database, version
> 9.1
> ii postgresql-9.2 9.2.15-1.pgdg1 object-relational SQL database, version
> 9.2
>
> Does this mean it is removed?
>
> On 24/03/2016 17:34, David Wilson wrote:
> >Hi Howard,
> >
> >So long as you haven't touched anything else, simply reinstalling the
> >package should restore your cluster. Debian packages only do
> >initialization if the data directories are missing.
> >
> >
> >David
> >
> >On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 05:29:23PM +0000, Howard News wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I uninstalled the wrong version of postgres on Ubuntu using apt-get remove
> >>postgresql-9.0, convinced that this was an old unused version. You guess the
> >>rest...
> >>
> >>The data files still appear to be there, all 485GB of them. Can these be
> >>restored?
> >>
> >>Thanks.
> >
>
>
>
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