When restoring from a pg_dumpall file, is it best to delete the contents
of the data folder, run intitdb to recreate it, and then do the command
"psql -U postgres -f backupfile postgres"?

When I do the restore over top of what is in the data folder already,
there are many errors reported.

Thanks

Marc Fromm
Information Technology Specialist II
Financial Aid Department
Western Washington University
Phone: 360-650-3351
Fax: 360-788-0251


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