Re: Can't start PostgreSQL

Thank you all

Deleting the old data base cleared up the problem.

Ian

On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 15:59 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> 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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