Re: dropping all databases and starting afresh

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans(at)geograph(dot)co(dot)za>
wrote:

> In the end I just rm -rf'd the files, as suggested by others on this list.
> I was initially concerned about that simple approach, as I figured that
> many postgres conf files will still point to that deleted area - but as
> postgres will not run again until I do an initdb -D command, it (should)
> goes to follow that those conf files will then be correctly updated.

Yeah, I understand your concern, and I do agree. On installation from
packages on Debian/Ubuntu-like, you should keep with the cluster management
tools provided, like pg_createcluster instead of initdb, pg_ctlcluster
instead of pg_ctl, pg_dropcluster instead of rm, and so on.

Regards,
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Matheus de Oliveira
Analista de Banco de Dados
Dextra Sistemas - MPS.Br nível F!
www.dextra.com.br/postgres