From: Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans@geograph.co.za>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: dropping all databases and starting afresh
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:15:40 +0200
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OK - cool - thanks for the tips.
Regards,
Zoltan
On 02/04/2015 02:02 PM, Matheus de Oliveira wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans@geograph.co.za
> <mailto:zoltans@geograph.co.za>> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> Yeah, I understand your concern, and I do agree. On installation from
> packages on Debian/Ubuntu-like, you should keep with the cluster
> management tools provided, like pg_createcluster instead of initdb,
> pg_ctlcluster instead of pg_ctl, pg_dropcluster instead of rm, and so on.
>
> Regards,
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> Matheus de Oliveira
> Analista de Banco de Dados
> Dextra Sistemas - MPS.Br nível F!
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