On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Carlos Mennens
<carlos.mennens@gmail.com> wrote:
> I did an upgrade on my database server this past weekend and the
> database fails to start. I checked /var/log/postgresql and found the
> reason:
>
> [root@slave ~]# ps aux | grep postgres
> root 5189 0.0 0.0 8128 956 pts/0 S+ 12:28 0:00 grep postgres
>
> [root@slave ~]# /etc/rc.d/postgresql start
> :: Starting PostgreSQL
>
> [BUSY] server starting
>
>
> [DONE]
> [root@slave ~]# ps aux | grep postgres
> root 5205 0.0 0.0 8128 960 pts/0 R+ 12:28 0:00 grep postgres
>
> [root@slave ~]# tail -n 50 /var/log/postgresql.log
> FATAL: database files are incompatible with server
> DETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 8.4,
> which is not compatible with this version 9.0.1.
> FATAL: database files are incompatible with server
> DETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 8.4,
> which is not compatible with this version 9.0.1.
> FATAL: database files are incompatible with server
> DETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 8.4,
> which is not compatible with this version 9.0.1.
>
> Does anyone know if this is a issue with PostgreSQL or with the way
> Arch Linux packages the upgrade?
It's always been like that. There should be a pg_migrator script or
something like that to convert the 8.4 db to 9.0
