Re: broke postgres, how to fix??

On 02/22/2013 03:46 PM, JD Wong wrote:
> I tried copying postgres over to a new directory. it was working until
> I deleted a bunch of databases from the "old" postgres. Lo and behold
> this somehow broke the "new" copy too.

Did you actually copy or symlink?

>
> Now when I start with pg_ctl
> 2013-02-22 18:36:13 EST DETAIL: The database subdirectory
> "base/1066060" is missing.
> 2013-02-22 18:36:25 EST FATAL: database "wormmine" does not exist
> 2013-02-22 18:36:25 EST DETAIL: The database subdirectory
> "base/1027296" is missing.
> 2013-02-22 18:37:13 EST FATAL: database "wormmine-dev" does not exist
>
> and it won't start...
>
> How can I fix this? re-creating these databases with the old postgres
> didn't work...
>
> Also, why did this happen? I created a new data directory for the new
> postgres, this should be impossible....

It happened so it was not impossible. You sure you deleted from the old
directory?

>
> I have no ideas left, can anyone help?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -JD

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