John,

You can go through the /sites/default/settings.php file, look for the db_url variable. There should be comments above that line explaining the syntax, it's straightforward.

Alternatively if I'm understanding you correctly you've got a new Drupal installation which you'd like to point to a copy of a populated database. You could just go through the initialization screens.

Hope this helps and that I'm not misinterpreting something here.

Marty

At 01:43 PM 8/25/2011, John Mitchell wrote:

I have an existing drupal 6.20 database backed up and restored to another postgres database. I also have a new version of drupal 6.22 on another box which is ready for installation. Can I just point this new version of drupal to this newly restored postgres database and if so how would I do this?

Thanks,

John