Re: Help, I've killed my system?

Dean Grubb <dean@atrium-online.com.au> writes:
> I have a debian server running postgresql 7.03 from the packages
> and also postgresql 7.1.3 from source. After doing an upgrade to some
> system files (ahrrrrrr...apt-get is good but I like freeBSD ports) I
> find that I no longer have the postgresql 7.03
> installation but a miss matched 7.2 part install.

> I still have the data folder from the database. Can anybody recommend a
> plan for recovery...Somehow reinsall 7.03 if I can find the .deb
> package?...is it possible to move the data/base files into another
> postgresql installation...can I import them?

You need to reinstall 7.0.something --- you cannot use that data folder
with any other PG release series.  I do not know the ins and outs of
Debian packaging well enough to recommend how to do that though ...

            regards, tom lane