Re: From 7.2.2 to 7.3-2 on RH 8.0 - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: From 7.2.2 to 7.3-2 on RH 8.0
Date
Msg-id 14819.1041871354@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to From 7.2.2 to 7.3-2 on RH 8.0  ("Iames Pizzoli" <iames@esperiasw.it>)
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"Iames Pizzoli" <iames@esperiasw.it> writes:
> "An old version of the database format was found. You need to upgrade
> the data format before using PostgreSQL. See
> /usr/share/doc/postgresql-7.3/README.rpm-dist for more information."

>     I cannot see any useful info there. I have no important data to
> be worried about in the PC (the db I created was a test, no table). If
> there is an easy way to get rid of it I'd do it immediately. Any hint?

If you don't need the old database, then just "rm -rf" the PGDATA
directory and re-run initdb.

The RPM distribution may have some script it wants you to run instead of
just running initdb directly; I'm not sure.  Have you read the README
that the error message directs you to?

            regards, tom lane

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