| From: | "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)chapelperilous(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Martin A(dot) Marques" <martin(at)math(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: re-instalation |
| Date: | 2001-01-20 21:34:05 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.30.0101201631140.4421-100000@chapelperilous.net |
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On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
> > The problem with just moving your database to the new location is that
> > there are location dependencies built into it when you use initdb to
> > initialize it, so it's not reliable.
>
> AFAIK, there are *not* any location dependencies in a standard PG
> database (other than path names associated with alternate database
> locations, if you are so foolish as to use hard-wired alternate-location
> pathnames). So in theory Martin should have been able to tar up the
> entire $PGDATA tree and move it somewhere else. I'm not sure why he's
> reporting a problem, but I don't think that's it.
Ah, right... I misunderstood and thought he had also changed to a
different version because of OS incompatilities. Never mind. :-)
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/~bmccoy/
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