From: | Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> |
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To: | Thara Vadakkeveedu <tharagv(at)yahoo(dot)com>, "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: accidentally deleted data directory |
Date: | 2013-09-24 10:41:21 |
Message-ID: | A737B7A37273E048B164557ADEF4A58B17C23A2B@ntex2010a.host.magwien.gv.at |
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Thara Vadakkeveedu wrote:
> ps –edf shows no postgres processes:
> -bash-4.1$ ps -edf | grep postgres
> root 6412 6249 0 18:22 pts/0 00:00:00 su - postgres
> postgres 6413 6412 0 18:22 pts/0 00:00:00 -bash
> postgres 6465 6413 1 18:27 pts/0 00:00:00 ps -edf
> postgres 6466 6413 0 18:27 pts/0 00:00:00 grep postgres
Ok.
> Ran the following command as postgres user
> -bash-4.1$ /usr/pgsql-9.2/bin/postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.2/data
>
> pgstartup.log is empty
>
> -bash-4.1$ pwd
> /var/lib/pgsql/9.2
> -bash-4.1$ ls
> backups data logfile pgstartup.log
> -bash-4.1$ ls -al
> total 20
> drwx------. 4 postgres postgres 4096 Sep 23 18:21 .
> drwx------. 3 postgres postgres 4096 Sep 23 18:18 ..
> drwx------. 2 postgres postgres 4096 Apr 1 19:41 backups
> drwx------. 15 postgres postgres 4096 Sep 23 18:28 data
> -rw-------. 1 postgres postgres 409 Sep 22 11:44 logfile
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 0 Sep 23 18:20 pgstartup.log
> -bash-4.1$
>
> Is there something else I can try?
Yes.
Look how logging is configured in /var/lib/pgsql/9.2/data/postgresql.conf
(parameters log_destination, logging_collector, log_directory, log_filename).
Find the log file and see what is in there.
> I don’t have any data to restore. This is an installation which is only a couple of weeks old. I can
> uninstall and reinstall if that is easier.
I don't know if that would solve the problem.
> Where can I find the uninstaller ?
How did you install PostgreSQL?
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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