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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:51:24 -0700 (MST)
Subject: postgres 8.2 doesn't start after ubuntu upgrade
From: "Bryan Keith" <bryan@ideotrope.org>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
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Hello,

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10.  After the OS upgrade I
choose to upgrade software as well (all quite automated in ubuntu). 
Previously I was running postgres 8.2, but now I have postgres 8.3 (and
hopefully 8.2 as well).

I can run 8.3 and see the dbs (the default ones only; not mine) with psql.
 But when I try to start 8.2 nothing happens:

$ /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 start
 * Starting PostgreSQL 8.3 database server
                  [ OK ]
$ /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 stop
 * Stopping PostgreSQL 8.3 database server
                  [ OK ]
$ /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.2 start
$ /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.2 stop
$

You can see I get no response when trying to start 8.2.  What can I do?

To complicate matters I was using pg_dumpall to daily backup the db and
then used rdiff-backup to keep increments.  For some reason on August 1,
2008 pg_dumpall went from 50MB output (correct) to a few lines (!?).  So I
can't simply restore to 8.3 (the last one is from six months ago :(.  I do
have an image of the hard drive (using partimage) from before the upgrade,
but that would be getting pretty desperate to have to go back there.

Bryan