Bernhard D Rohrer <graylion(at)sm-wg(dot)net> writes:
> I have a broken database and not much clue about postgres, sorry for the
> n00b questions :(
I think you've got a cross-version problem, as in the database is really
PG 8.0 or earlier but you're trying to run 8.1 against it. What is in
the PG_VERSION file? Have you done "pg_resetxlog -f", and if so do you
have the original pg_control file to put back?
regards, tom lane