Re: How to move a 11.4 cluster to another Linux host, but empty?

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
To: Paul Förster <paul(dot)foerster(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Matthias Apitz <guru(at)unixarea(dot)de>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to move a 11.4 cluster to another Linux host, but empty?
Date: 2020-05-02 15:23:52
Message-ID: 84cd86a4-6757-2ae0-74bd-e36e86ee0c45@aklaver.com
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On 5/2/20 8:02 AM, Paul Förster wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
>> On 02. May, 2020, at 16:59, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> wrote:
>> 2) To create a new base/ you will need to initdb data/ and that is not possible as initdb will not work on a populated data/.
>
> you do the initdb and then copy the *.conf files from the tar over the newly created ones. After that, launch the cluster.

Yeah I know, I do that on a fairly regular basis. The intent was to let
the OP know that ripping base/ out of cluster and transplanting a new
one in is not possible.

>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>

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Adrian Klaver
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