From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Scott Frankel <frankel(at)circlesfx(dot)com> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: roll back to 8.1 for PyQt driver work-around |
Date: | 2008-07-06 05:43:43 |
Message-ID: | 23818.1215323023@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Scott Frankel <frankel(at)circlesfx(dot)com> writes:
> Any suggestions for how best to launch one of two different versions
> of pg installed on the same machine?
> I have both 8.3 and 8.1 installed on a MacBookPro (OS X 10.5.2). I
> stopped the 8.3 postmaster using pg_ctl in order to roll back to 8.1.
> Problem is, now I can't seem to start the server using either version.
It looks like you're trying to use the same data directory for both
versions, which won't work. They're not compatible on-disk.
> When I launch 8.1 with pg_ctl, it yields a "postmaster starting"
> message; but then a status check shows that the server is not
> running. Issuing the same commands for 8.3, I get similar results.
Looking into the postmaster log file (your -l specification) might
yield some insight. pg_ctl itself doesn't really know why the
postmaster failed to start.
regards, tom lane
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