Re: [GENERAL] re-instalation

On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> > The problem with just moving your database to the new location is that
> > there are location dependencies built into it when you use initdb to
> > initialize it, so it's not reliable.
>
> AFAIK, there are *not* any location dependencies in a standard PG
> database (other than path names associated with alternate database
> locations, if you are so foolish as to use hard-wired alternate-location
> pathnames).  So in theory Martin should have been able to tar up the
> entire $PGDATA tree and move it somewhere else.  I'm not sure why he's
> reporting a problem, but I don't think that's it.

Ah, right... I misunderstood and thought he had also changed to a
different version because of OS incompatilities.  Never mind. :-)

-- Brett
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