Re: pg_ctl stop failure

There is no need for a restore. The online copy is a snapshot of the
cluster dir and can be used like an offline copy. The advantage is that
no databases and backend processes need to be terminated.

regards

Andreas

On 05/20/2013 11:57 AM, Birchall, Austen wrote:
> Hi Andreas
>
> Due to permissions associated with the ESRI 'system' user even in 9.* you can't do a simple restore from an online backup - you have to restore public first- for 8.3 I have unable to get this solution to work hence going down the offline route, which is actually not an issue as regards downtime for the particular databases I am working on at present.
>
> Austen
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