Warren Little <warren.little@meridiascapital.com> writes:
> When I start postgres (pg_ctl -l logfile start). The following text is
> all that exists in the logfile:
> <2005-03-01 14:21:43 MST>FATAL: incorrect checksum in control file
> What control file is it referring to?
$PGDATA/global/pg_control. I think this must mean that you are trying
to start a postmaster that is fundamentally incompatible with the old
postmaster --- enough so that it thinks the pg_control struct should be
a different size than the old postmaster thought.
regards, tom lane
