Re: Tom, I've got an emergency - please help me

yes, but that's stand-alone mode...
if i now try to pg_dump from the bash, it says "no postmaster's running"
how can i dump in stand-alone mode?

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: "Henrik Steffen" <steffen@city-map.de>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>; "pg" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Tom, I've got an emergency - please help me


> Henrik Steffen wrote:
> >
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > thanks for your reply
> >
> > > You could try reindexing the system tables, but I don't have a lot of
> > > hope for that.  See the REINDEX man page.
> >
> > I allready tried this ... didn't work out.
> >
> > OK - I am sorry, but the ECC-RAM I ordered didn't run in the old server
> > so I had to order a new server as fast as possible... it's going to run
> > in a about 20-30 minutes hopefully....
> >
> > How can I start postgres in stand-alone mode with "-o -P" as you wrote
> > and then do a pg_dump ? Or did I get you wrong?
>
> postgres -o -P does look valuable:
>
> postmaster -o -P -D ...
>
> That may help.
>
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