Thread: Upgrade to 7.1.2 problem

hi

i recently upgraded to postgresql-7.1.2 but when i start the service, i get the folllowing error message!

An old version of the database format was found.\nYou need to upgrade the data format before using PostgreSQL.\nSee /
usr/share/doc/postgresql-7.1.2/README.rpm-dist for more information.

As far as i know the old databases have been upgraded! Whatsover, if there are any other databases in there and i dont
wantany of those older databases, what do i do! 

thanks in advance


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On Wednesday 11 July 2001 13:57, Kannan The Barbarian wrote:
> i recently upgraded to postgresql-7.1.2 but when i start the service, i get
> the folllowing error message!

> An old version of the database format was found.\nYou need to upgrade the
> data format before using PostgreSQL.\nSee /
> usr/share/doc/postgresql-7.1.2/README.rpm-dist for more information.

> As far as i know the old databases have been upgraded! Whatsover, if there
> are any other databases in there and i dont want any of those older
> databases, what do i do!

Check to see where it thinks the old data is -- 'it' being the RPM init
script that is issuing that error message.

The two choices of a default RPM install are /var/lib/pgsql and
/var/lib/pgsql/data -- you need to remove the whole tree, leaving
/var/lib/pgsql/data and /var/lib/pgsql/backups left empty.

Now rerun the initscript, and it will happily create a new,empty, database
tree for you that you can start working with.
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