On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:31:45PM -0600, root wrote:
> I have a postgres 7.2.2 database, without the DB_VERSION file, so I'm assuming
> this is an "alternate location" - as you can tell, I'm not a DBA. Anyway,
> the machine it was on got hacked, and I backed off the things I thought were
> important, reinstalled the OS and put the other things, including this DB,
> back into place. Problem: I don't have the /var/lib/pgsql part of my old
> installation,
Exactly what did you back up? What are the contents of the directory
you are trying to "attach" ?
If you didn't backup a pg_clog directory, you are pretty much hosed, I
think.
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