| From: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
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| To: | Ian Johnson <norules(at)telus(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Can't start PostgreSQL |
| Date: | 2006-07-27 20:59:01 |
| Message-ID: | 20060727205901.GA9987@wolff.to |
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:22:33 -0600,
Ian Johnson <norules(at)telus(dot)net> wrote:
>
> I want to develop an application in PostgreSQL but when starting the
> service I get the following message:
>
> An old version of the database format was found.
> You need to upgrade the data format before using PostgreSQL.
> See /usr/share/doc/postgresql-8.1.4/README.rpm-dist for more
> information.
>
> I am running Fedora Core 5 but initially had built the system with
> Fedora Core 3, with PostgreSQL installed and automatically updated it
> over the past 2 years. I may have created a test database 2 years ago
> which may be the source of the problem. Is this the source of the
> problem? I could find nothing in README.rpm-dist that helps.
That could certainly be the problem.
> I would appreciate any advice on how to deal with this problem.
Probably you want to delete the old database cluster and do a dbinit to create
a new one. The old one will probably be in /var/lib/pgsql/data .
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