Re: Did we really want to force an initdb in beta2? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> Shouldn't we have bumped the catversion? The installers can't tell
>> that beta1 clusters won't work with beta2 :-(

> That is an interesting point.  Tom bumped the pg_control version, but
> not the catalog version.

Right, because the catalog contents didn't change.  Seems to me you'd
better teach the installers to look at PG_CONTROL_VERSION too.
        regards, tom lane