Re: Recovering a database

"Peter Bayley" <peterb(at)homer(dot)com(dot)au> writes:

> I had a hard disk crash recently (Those IBM 45Gb drives again) and had to
> reinstall Linux (RedHat 7.2) on the new disk (Seagate)
>
> My question is - how can I tell PostgreSQL (which I've obviously had to
> reinstall) to look at my existing database which was mounted on another
> volume and is still intact.?. In other words- Can you tell a
> freshly-installed PostgreSQL to use an existing (same version) database?

Sure--set PGDATA appropriately before starting the postmaster. See
the docs.

BTW, this would have been better posted to GENERAL rather than
HACKERS.

-Doug
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