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I got a problem today with PT3, I've tryed to reinstall it entirely today, but on the PostgreSQL installation I encountered this message :

The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "SYSTEM".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale English_United States.1252.
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".

initdb: directory "C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.3/data" exists but is not empty
If you want to create a new database system, either remove or empty
the directory "C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.3/data" or run initdb
with an argument other than "C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.3/data".

In fact it means that there is already a directory created with a database already existing i.e the older.
The thing is that I want to use this older database keeping my old hand history so I can do the installation using the existing database ?

Postgres manages the database files, so re-installing will mess up this management.
I don't know whether this is recoverable, or how to do it, so I'm afraid you'll have to wait for one of the postgres experts to come along.

what problem prompted you to try and re-install everything?

the re-installation looks like it's failed and left your old db intact - if you are determined to re-install, get the version (beta 15) without the postgres bundle and that should leave the db clusters alone...

if indeed you have done something with the full re-install, we'll try and back off and recover your old db manually...


susan