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From Thomas Pundt
Subject Re: Forgot to dump old data before re-installing machine
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Msg-id 200801161402.14761.mlists@rp-online.de
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In response to Re: Forgot to dump old data before re-installing machine  (Stefan Schwarzer <stefan.schwarzer@grid.unep.ch>)
Responses Re: Forgot to dump old data before re-installing machine  (Stefan Schwarzer <stefan.schwarzer@grid.unep.ch>)
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On Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2008, Stefan Schwarzer wrote:
| The logfile is telling me this when I try to start the server with my  
| "old" data folder:
|
| FATAL:  database files are incompatible with server
| DETAIL:  The database cluster was initialized with PG_CONTROL_VERSION  
| 738394112, but the server was compiled with PG_CONTROL_VERSION 812.
|
| What does it mean? I have and had 8.1 installed...

I didn't follow the thread, but look at the output of

  $ printf "%x\n" 738394112
  2c030000

and

  $ printf "%x\n" 812
  32c

This looks like an endianess mismatch; did you already mention on what
architecture you are on?

Ciao,
Thomas

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