Lonni J Friedman wrote:
On 5/25/06, Bob Ambroso <bambroso@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
that major upgrades kill Postgrsql..
My question is can I save the data I have in their now? I cannot do a
pg_dump as the DB wont start.
I do not have a current dump file to use..
So you're saying that you've never backed up or dumped the DB?
Copy your /var/lib/pgsql directory to somewhere safe.
Try installing pgsql on an FC3 computer (or whatever older version you
were upgrading from). Copy the /var/lib/pgsql contents to it, and maybe
(!) you'll have a functional database again. Maybe not, though.
Do you have pre-upgrade tape (or CD or whatever) backups of the
/var/lib/pgsql directory? Those files would be better than the
post-upgrade ones.
I too learned about Fedora's habit of clobbering pgsql data after
upgrades the hard way... but I had enough backups to fix things. Backup
your raw files AND do a pgdumpall every night!
- Mike
