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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pg_control error!
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Msg-id 11144.976897508@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to pg_control error!  (<rocael@usa.net>)
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<rocael@usa.net> writes:
>    I got this error:
>    FATAL 2: Read("/usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_control") failed:2

This looks like the symptom of an incompatible BLCKSZ setting.
(There's supposed to be a more graceful error message about that,
but it doesn't work quite right in 7.0.* :-(.)  Were you trying to
change BLCKSZ?  If so you need to initdb.

            regards, tom lane

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