Re: Fixing "old version was found" error - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Dragan Matic
Subject Re: Fixing "old version was found" error
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Msg-id 42402428.80005@panforma.co.yu
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In response to Fixing "old version was found" error  ("Gordon A. Fox" <gfox@mail.cas.usf.edu>)
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Erase /var/lib/pgsql/data directory and all its subdirectories

Gordon A. Fox wrote:

> I just upgraded a machine to Fedora Core 3 and now on startup pgsql gives
> me the message "An old version of the database format was found" and
> refuses to start.
>
> I'm not entirely sure how to fix this (everything I've read says I
> should've taken some steps before the upgrade) but since the only
> database
> on this machine was a sample one, I don't care if it's lost. Are there
> files
> I can simply delete to make pgsql happy -- so we can actually start using
> it?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Gordon
>
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