| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | arjun(at)greatgulfhomes(dot)com |
| Cc: | Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Upgrading database format on PostgreSQL 8.1 on FC6 |
| Date: | 2008-08-01 22:16:59 |
| Message-ID: | 24089.1217629019@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Arjun Datta <arjun(at)greatgulfhomes(dot)com> writes:
> I have a PG dump (using pg_dumpall) from a PostgreSQL 7.3.4 server on
> Redhat 7.2 that I am trying to restore.
> But on the newer machine (I cannot verify if postgres has ever been run
> on it or if it did when last), even before I try to restore, I notice
> that on startup I get the following error.
> [root(at)devdb3 8.1]# service postgresql start
> An old version of the database format was found.
> You need to upgrade the data format before using PostgreSQL.
If you know that there is no useful data on the machine, just rm -rf
/var/lib/pgsql/data (or wherever PGDATA is ... it's a good idea to
look into the start script to be sure).
regards, tom lane
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