John D. Tiedeman wrote:
> With a dying hard disc, I backed up my db files from 7.4.1 and
> installed 7.4.2 on my new disc after installing Fedora Core 1. Two
> problems: 1. User postgres seems to have been set up automatically,
> and I can't find a password that works.
There probably isn't one. Become root and then su to postgres.
> 2. When I try to start psql under my own username, I get
> "file /usr/lib/libpq.so.3 from install of
> postgresql-libs-7.4.2-1PGDG.i386.rpm conflicts with files from
> postgresql-7.3.4-2"
> How can I fix this short of wiping everything out and starting over?
Use rpm -U instead of -i.
