Re: Cannot start the postgres service

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Mitesh51 <mit_bca1(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Cannot start the postgres service
Date: 2009-10-14 11:11:23
Message-ID: 4AD5B1DB.5050208@postnewspapers.com.au
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On 14/10/2009 2:29 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Craig Ringer
> <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
>>
>> A better question might by "why on earth are you messing about with the
>> data directory when you don't understand what it does and how it works?".
>
> Not that anyone wants to discourage exploring. It's just there are
> better ways to go about things than deleting / removing files if
> you're not sure what they do.

Well said.

For that matter, there's no harm going and mangling the data directory
of an install you don't care about either, though I'm not sure I see
what's to be gained by it.

--
Craig Ringer

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