Re: restore database from bare files

Hi,

try this:
psql -t -d yourdb -c "SELECT datid FROM pg_stat_database WHERE
datname='yourdb';"

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/monitoring-stats.html

Greetings,

Martin

Am Donnerstag, den 30.06.2005, 12:57 +0200 schrieb jehan-free:
> OK, I'am not yet at restarting postgres .. but if at get pb then I check
> that , thanks !
> For now , How can I tell from the bare file the mapping between a
> database name and the number appearing in /var/lib/pgsql/base directory
> I have :
> pgsql/data/base/1/
> pgsql/data/base/16975/
> pgsql/data/base/16980/
> so I made the assumption that 1 is a database (probably the test initial
> database ?), 16975 is an other one and 16980 a tird one ! How can I find
> the map from these numbers to database name ?
> thanks
> Martin Fandel wrote:
>
> >Hi
> >
> >Maybe you must reset the WAL's
> >( http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/app-pgresetxlog.html )
> >after restoring from tarball if postgres doesn't start.
> >
> >Am Donnerstag, den 30.06.2005, 07:34 +0200 schrieb jehan:
> >
> >
> >>So I must one way or another run a 7.3, restore the file from the
> >>tarball as is (just put them back to /var/lib/pgsql), the databases
> >>should be running correctly then (?), then pg_dump it , upgrade to 7.4
> >>and restore from the pg_dump .
> >>before running in all this (and I still don't know how I will be able to
> >>get a 7.3 on RHEL4 ... ?) is that the correct procedure ?
> >>thanks
> >>
> >>
> >
> >yes, this is the correct way :).
> >
> >Martin
> >
> >
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