Re: broke postgres, how to fix??

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:10 PM, JD Wong <jdmswong(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
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>> That's guaranteed to break everything badly.
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> Even if I "read only style" copied the files? Do you mind elaborating on why
> this happens? ( or point me to relevant documentation )

What is "read only style", and how does postgres know about this?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/backup-file.html

>
> Thanks,
> -JD
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:02 PM, JD Wong <jdmswong(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> > Hi Adrian, yes I completely copied the config-file and data directories
>> > over.
>> >
>> > Lonnie, I don't remember. I might not have shut down the "old"
>> > postgres,
>> > yes I set PGDATA accordingly.
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>> That's guaranteed to break everything badly.
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