Re: In a moment of madness I destroyed...

On 02/02/2014 04:33 PM, Jerry Levan wrote:
> Today I updated my fedora machine from f19 to f20 without taking a
> data dump.
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> When ‘fedup’ finished my 9.2.x binaries were updated to 9.3.x and
> postgresql can no longer start…
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> I have all of the tables on another machine ( a mac  running 9.1.x postgresql) so no important
> data was lost. ( My db consists primarily of all of my financial transactions
> for the last 14 years and some miscellaneous tables for stashing other interesting information.)
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> Any suggestions for recovery would be appreciated.
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> Would a  text pg_dumpall from the mac be portable to the 9.3.x version on the PAE kerneled
> fedora box?

Yes.

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> It looks like I would at a minimum move the current pgsql directory and then do
> the initdb and create user stuff…

So the upgrade overwrote you $DATA directory?

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> I guess I could then possibly use the dblink stuff to suck the tables over one at a time…
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> Thanks
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>   Dazed and Confused Jerry
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