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From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jerry Levan <jerry(dot)levan(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: In a moment of madness I destroyed...
Date: 2014-02-03 00:54:15
Message-ID: 52EEE8B7.1020908@gmail.com
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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.)
>
> Any suggestions for recovery would be appreciated.
>
> 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
>
> Dazed and Confused Jerry
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Adrian Klaver
adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com

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