On Saturday 25 January 2003 16:40, Markus Jais wrote:
> /etc/rc.d/init.d$ sudo ./postgresql start
> An old version of the database format was found.\nYou need to upgrade
> the data format before using PostgreSQL.\nSee (Your System's
> documentation directory)/postgresql-7.3/README.rpm-dist for more
> information.
> but in this file I can not find information about the data format
> or I have overseen it. I even made a $ grep -i format
> with no proper result.
Well, you have found a documentation bug -- I removed the information from the
README but forgot to synchronize the initscript accordingly.
> any ideas what to do ?
> I have no important data so it would be possible to remove
> the old databases but I do not know if this is the solution.
rm -rf /var/lib/pgsql/data/* will wipe the data tree.
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Lamar Owen
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