| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Anne M(dot) Hammond" <hammond(at)solarz(dot)Colorado(dot)EDU> |
| Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, pandurangan(dot)r(dot)s(at)gmail(dot)com, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us |
| Subject: | Re: initdb fails |
| Date: | 2005-12-07 20:28:48 |
| Message-ID: | 1133987328.2906.954.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 11:04 -0700, Anne M. Hammond wrote:
> If there is another way to do this, such as command line options
> or environmental values for initdb, I haven't found it.
There's no need to run initdb on the smaller machine.
Run the initdb on the larger machine, then *while postmaster is
shutdown* copy the entire data directory across to the smaller machine.
>From there you can edit the postgresql.conf and startup.
Best Regards, Simon Riggs
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