Re: upgraded postgresql - bother! can't find the thread

Richard Lyons <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.sql-ledger.user
Organization the-place
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wednesday 04 September 2002 8:49, Maanus Kask wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 01:24:50 +0100
> Richard Lyons <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I know this has been discussed here before, but I can't find it.  I
> > upgraded from RH7.1 to RH7.3, and it upgraded postgresql without
> > asking me.  Now when I try to log on, I get
[snip]
> When you upgrade to PostgresSQL 7.2.1 it will make backups of your old
> PostgresSQL binarys. I had them in /usr/lib/pgsql/backup/, what you need
> to do is cd to this directory and run postmaster from there e.g
> "./postmaster -iD /var/lib/pgsql/data" and then ./pg_dumpall to a file,
> after that you can delete /var/lib/pgsql/data (of cource you can make
> backup first, in case anything goes wrong) and start postgresql service
> normally (from /etc/init.d).

My saviour!  That worked perfectly (once I realized I had to start another 
shell for the ./pg_dumpall).

The files are all neatly restored, and all I have to do now is remember how to 
sort the permissions and ownership to avoid
 Error!
 FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed for user "postgres"

> best regards
> Maanus Kask
> 
> P.S. As an alternative you can remove the new PostreSQL, install old
> one, make pg_dumpall, upgrade again, edit dumpfile and restore
> databases.

That was the alternative I was getting geared up for.  I'm glad I didn't have 
to do that.

Thanks, Maanus
--
richard


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