Re: error on start

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Hi,

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Jodi Kanter wrote:

> Our Linux admin just upgraded our server to fedora Core 2 which apparently
> upgraded postgres to version 7.4.2-1
>
> Now on trying to start the postgres server we get the following error:
>
> An old version of the database format was found.\nYou need to upgrade the
> data format before using PostgreSQL.\nSee (Your System's documentation
> directory)/postgresql-7.4/README.rpm-dist for more information.
>
> Can someone give me some insight into this please? The database was not
> touched. Should it have been dumped and restored in upgrading from 7.3.4?

Yes. See:

http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/install-upgrading.html

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