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Moving postgresql data directory

I moved postgresql's data directory by following the following steps: Stop postgres cp -a source_data_directory destination_data_directory export PGDATA=destination_data_directory Changing data ...
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PostgreSQL cannot start after replacing contents inside its Data folder

When recovering the Postgresql database from a hacked Ubuntu 12.04 server, I copied the data directory to another location, reinstalled the OS and PostgreSQL, stopped PostgreSQL service, removed the ...
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How to change the data directory on Postgresql 9.1 on Ubuntu

I am having a problem changing the data directory on postgresql 9.1 on ubuntu 13.04: I first did a: sudo pg_dropcluster --stop 9.1 main and then attempted to create a new one in the desired path: ...
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clusterdb stopped working for PostgreSQL database in Ubuntu 12.04 server

After a fresh PostgreSQL install (version 9.2) on my Ubuntu server 12.04, clusterdb utility stopped working. I used the same config files as I used with version 9.1. Below is the actual command: ...
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QGIS PostGIS Authentication Failure with “trust” option

I'm trying to setup a PostGIS db using PostGreSQL 9.1 on Ubuntu 12.04. I've set up the database, created a user account "jay" with no password, added spatial functionality following section 2.5 here, ...
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Postgresql - Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I'm working on postgresql code (server side). I installed a version from source code following the official tutorial: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/install-short.html I did same ...
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Preventing PostgreSQL from starting on boot in Ubuntu

I am using PostgreSQL 9.2 and it runs automatically when I start the system (Kubuntu). How can I avoid this? I need to start it manually, and I don't want it to start unattended because I need to ...
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libreadline.so.6

when I was installing PostgreSQL from source code I had to install the libreadline.so.6 library. From that moment I can't update my kubuntu system. The error is: Setting up ubuntu-keyring ...
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restore compressed dump query in postgresql asks password

I'm using ubuntu OS and I took backup using sudo -u postgres pg_dump dbname | gzip > filename.gz in the file path as... /home/administrator/Documents/DB_Backup# sudo -u postgres pg_dump dbname ...
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Ubuntu: upgrading postgresql 8.4 database cluster for use with 9.2 server

I have installed PG 9.2 on my machine. I have a database cluster that was created about a year ago, using initdb, using postgreSQL version 8.4. The (8.4) data cluster consumes several Gb and so its ...
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Install PostGIS v2 for PostgreSQL v9.2

I have installed the latest stable version of PostgreSQL v9.2 and I want to install the PostGIS v2 extension. I've been searching for it for 3 days now, however can't find it. I did however find ...
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Which option do I have to modify to see more records without press `q`

I'm connected remotly to my database server with cygwin in full screen. When I query my database with select id, name from table limit 27; I get 27 records and I can do a new query seeing the ...
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Postgresql: what to do about upgrading “main” cluster from 8.4 to 9.1 when a 9.1 “main” already exists?

I have an existing 8.4 cluster (named main) that I want to upgrade to 9.1. However, when I go to upgrade it, I get an error because 9.1 already has a cluster named main (apparently a default cluster ...
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Trying to create PostGIS database

I am trying to create a spatially enabled PostGIS database. I am following the PostGIS documentation, http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.5/ch02.html#id2648455. In the short ...
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Recover PostgreSQL database from WAL errors on startup?

I'm trying to set up an OpenStreetMap server on an Ubuntu 12.04 machine using the Ubuntu packages listed at switch2osm.org. I initially installed and set up everything using a Northeast US-only map ...
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Starting postgresql service and specifying data directory

I have recently installed pg 8.4 on Ubuntu 10.0.4 using apt-get install. It installed pg as a service which starts ehenever the machine starts. However I have created a db cluster in a specific ...
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Tool for Reverse Engineering of PostgreSQL Database on Linux (Ubuntu)

Please suggest a tool to reverse engineer a PostgreSQL DB into an entity-relationship-diagram (ERD) or equivalent ?? Ideally, I'm looking for a simple ERD or UML class diagram in a format that is ...
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How to connect to an remote PostgreSQL database on Ubuntu using pgAdmin3?

I´m trying to setup an PostgreSQL database on an Ubuntu machine. I would like to be able to access it using pgAdmin3 from a remote machine. How do I setup this? I have installed the PostgreSQL ...
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View Postgresql Memory Usage

I'm running Postgresql on a Ubuntu server and need to be able to monitor its memory usage. Currently I have scripts running in a one-minute cron job that monitor/log various statistics and need to ...
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Postgresql - Recovery using recovery.conf

I am trying to recover a database using recovery.conf file for making point-in-time copy. On recovery.conf file, I added a recovery target time as below. recovery_target_time = '2011-06-16 04:10:00 ...
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PostgreSQL: SET-ing from psql arguments

Following this answer regarding limiting resources per query in PostgreSQL, I've been advised to set a timeout value for query execution: SET statement_timeout TO '1min'; This is great, but ...