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On 02/04/2015 12:07 PM, Matheus de Oliveira wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans@geograph.co.za 
> <mailto:zoltans@geograph.co.za>> wrote:
>
>     neither:
>
>         postgres@gs01:/etc$ pg_dropcluster –-stop 9.4 gisdata
>         Usage: /usr/bin/pg_dropcluster [--stop] <version> <cluster>
>
>     nor
>
>         postgres@gs01:/etc$ pg_dropcluster –-stop 9.4 postgres
>         Usage: /usr/bin/pg_dropcluster [--stop] <version> <cluster>
>
>     works.
>     I've done no createdb commands, so dopdb shouldn't be what I want
>     for this cleanup (I'd think).
>
>
> If you copied+pasted the exact command you run, then no wonder it is 
> wrong. If you look closer you are not calling "--stop", the first dash 
> is another character (not minus/hyphen character). One is "EN DASH" 
> with code 0xe28093 [1], while the correct one is "HYPHEN-MINUS" with 
> code 0x2d [2].
>
AWESOME !!
Well spotted.
I must have copy&pasted it from one of the online pdf manuals.

In the end I just rm -rf'd the files, as suggested by others on this 
list. I was initially concerned about that simple approach, as I figured 
that many postgres conf files will still point to that deleted area - 
but as postgres will not run again until I do an initdb -D command, it 
(should) goes to follow that those conf files will then be correctly 
updated.

Big thanks to all who contributed.

Kind regards,
Zoltan




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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/04/2015 12:07 PM, Matheus de
      Oliveira wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAJghg4JhCsT4mcip-97+PUBn=QDi+YewhOG8n693DCmVpV91jQ@mail.gmail.com"
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:52 PM,
            Zoltan Szecsei <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a
                moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="mailto:zoltans@geograph.co.za" target="_blank">zoltans@geograph.co.za</a>&gt;</span>
            wrote:<br>
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              rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
              <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> neither:<br>
                <blockquote><tt>postgres@gs01:/etc$ pg_dropcluster
                    –-stop 9.4 gisdata</tt><tt><br>
                  </tt><tt>Usage: /usr/bin/pg_dropcluster [--stop]
                    &lt;version&gt; &lt;cluster&gt;</tt><tt><br>
                  </tt></blockquote>
                nor<br>
                <blockquote><tt>postgres@gs01:/etc$ pg_dropcluster
                    –-stop 9.4 postgres</tt><tt><br>
                  </tt><tt>Usage: /usr/bin/pg_dropcluster [--stop]
                    &lt;version&gt; &lt;cluster&gt;</tt><br>
                </blockquote>
                works.<br>
                I've done no createdb commands, so dopdb shouldn't be
                what I want for this cleanup (I'd think).</div>
            </blockquote>
          </div>
          <br>
        </div>
        <div class="gmail_extra">If you copied+pasted the exact command
          you run, then no wonder it is wrong. If you look closer you
          are not calling "--stop", the first dash is another character
          (not minus/hyphen character). One is "EN DASH" with code
          0xe28093 [1], while the correct one is "HYPHEN-MINUS" with
          code 0x2d [2].<br>
        </div>
        <div class="gmail_signature"><br>
        </div>
      </div>
    </blockquote>
    AWESOME !!<br>
    Well spotted.<br>
    I must have copy&amp;pasted it from one of the online pdf manuals.<br>
    <br>
    In the end I just rm -rf'd the files, as suggested by others on this
    list. I was initially concerned about that simple approach, as I
    figured that many postgres conf files will still point to that
    deleted area - but as postgres will not run again until I do an
    initdb -D command, it (should) goes to follow that those conf files
    will then be correctly updated.<br>
    <br>
    Big thanks to all who contributed.<br>
    <br>
    Kind regards,<br>
    Zoltan<br>
    <br>
    <br>
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