On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:13:08 +0200, Jarkko Elfving <jarelf@ebaana.net> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I've started to learn SQL about 6 months ago, and now I'd upgraded
> PostgreSQL 7.4 to new release 8.0. After upgrading I start to read the
> README file (how stupid I was) and there were instructions to how to do
> it; the upgrade I mean. Now I'm wondering, server is not running because
> fileformat or something like that is wrong - I did the upgrade wrongly.
> I do not have any relevant data in the Postgre database, so I don't need
> to backup it (which was one point of the upgrading). How I must have to
> proceed that I can start the Postgre server? Do I use the initdb command
> and if I do, how I do it with default locations? I'm very new on
> PostgreSQL and do not have much experience on SQL. I'm running on FC3.
>
> I hope that you understand what my problem is. I will explain more, if
> you don't.
If you don't care about losing your data, you can fix this by shutting
down postgresql, deleting the contents of /var/lib/pgsql/data and then
starting postgresql again.
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