Re: trouble restoring data from postgres 8.3.3 to freshly installed 8.3.6

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your reply and idea. I was up way
past my bed time and my mind was not with my
finger tips. As I followed suggestions from
Scott, I was able to get it to work fast. More
often than not, I push the door, when it is
written on the door: "PULL" :)

Regards,

Tena Sakai

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan-Peter Seifert [mailto:Jan-Peter(dot)Seifert(at)gmx(dot)de]
Sent: Sun 2/22/2009 10:23 AM
To: Tena Sakai
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] trouble restoring data from postgres 8.3.3 to freshly installed 8.3.6

Hello,

Tena Sakai wrote:

> I just finished installing postgres 8.3.6 and was
> able to start it. The log file reads:
>
> [2009-02-22 00:27:01.824 PST] < 11543 2009-02-22 00:27:01 PST >LOG:
> database system was interrupted; last known up at 2009-02-22 00:25:04 PST
> [2009-02-22 00:27:01.825 PST] < 11543 2009-02-22 00:27:01 PST >LOG:
> database system was not properly shut down; automatic recovery in progress
> [2009-02-22 00:27:01.827 PST] < 11543 2009-02-22 00:27:01 PST >LOG:
> record with zero length at 13D/F78D2378
> [2009-02-22 00:27:01.827 PST] < 11543 2009-02-22 00:27:01 PST >LOG:
> redo is not required
> [2009-02-22 00:27:01.880 PST] < 11546 2009-02-22 00:27:01 PST >LOG:
> autovacuum launcher started
> [2009-02-22 00:27:01.881 PST] < 11542 2009-02-22 00:27:01 PST >LOG:
> database system is ready to accept connections

If you haven't installed the PostgreSQL server as a service, then you
have to manually shut down (pg_ctl etc.) the server before shutting down
the system of course.

> While in postgres's home directory, I issued a command:
> ./bin/psql -f PastLogs/dumpall.out postgres
> which is almost verbatim from the man page. When I had
> .pgpass file, it told me:
> psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres"
> When I got rid of it, it asked me for one. Whatever I gave was
> no avail. The password it is asking is not login password?
>
> Can somebody please help?

Try setting the authentification method for local (127.0.0.1) to trust
in the pg_hba.conf file (it's in the cluster directory together with
postgresql.conf. Then set a new password for postgres via SQL, pgAdmin
III etc. ...
After that don't forget to set the authentification method back to the
old setting.

Good luck,

Peter