Lou,
> The start command we're testing with, for example (the only variable is
> datapath: data-NEW vs. data-OLD):
> # /usr/local/postgres/8.5-alpha2/bin/pg_ctl -D
> /var/postgres/8.5-alpha2/data-NEW -l /var/postgres/8.5-alpha2/TEMPLOG start
> (above works great, with an alpha2-init'd data cluster)
Oh, I don't think there's been any attempt to tell alpha2 that it can
accept an alpha1 InitDB. You have to re-initdb with each alpha. We're
still making catalog changes.
--Josh Berkus