Re: Urgent Help Required

On 10/08/2013 09:03 AM, David Johnston wrote:
>
>> postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/data patnadbold < fix.sql
>
> What the heck is the point of feeding "VACUUM FULL;" into the standard input
> of the postgres command? "postgres" simply starts the server, it does not
> execute arbitrary SQL. Once the database is started you want to use "psql"
> - either interactively or in a similar manner to the above - to connect to
> the <patnadbold> database and run "VACUUM".

I was under that impression also. So I went back in the archives, and in
8.1 this was possible.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/app-postgres.html

>
>
>> PostgreSQL stand-alone backend 8.1.11
>
> 8.1 is unsupported at this point; plus you say 8.4 below which this
> contradicts. Your configuration is very unclear.

This part is still unclear to me. I would like some more information on
where the 8.4 cluster comes into play, if at all. My hunch is the OP is
working with two different Postgres instances un-intently .

> David J.

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