Re: how to recover database back from /data folder [ Possibly

> I think the above messages support the fact that the database was
> shutdown
> properly before the filesystem level backup.
> Can anyone kindly confirm it ?
"LOG:  database system is ready"

Says it all - if it hadn't been, you'd have gotten "LOG: database system
was not shut-down cleanly, recovering" or along those lines.
>
> I listed the tables and did some selects the data seems to be there.
> I think postgres was not starting for some peripheral issues
> not because that data folder was corrupted.
>
> BTW
> when i first started postmaster it gave an error related to
> too liberal permissions. Probably the original poster was doing
> the same mistake.
>
> Regds
> mallah.
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