From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Forgot to dump old data before re-installing machine |
Date: | 2008-01-18 21:14:51 |
Message-ID: | 12814.1200690891@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> writes:
> The usual advice, telling them to replicate the binaries used to create it
> in the first place, isn't always the easiest to follow. It seems to me
> that including a "environment at cluster creation" note in $PGDATA like
> Dave suggests would be helpful for these cases; PG_VERSION just isn't
> enough information. I'd also throw in the locale information used for the
> cluster, as that seems like something it would be nice to have in simple
> text form as well there and is also a spot people are confused about.
pg_controldata already provides this information, no? At least barring
the case of wrong-time_t-size, which we already know we want to fix.
regards, tom lane
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