Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql weird incompatibility problem

[Rafael Barrera Oro]

That worked perfectly, thanks for all your help people.


2007/10/16, Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>:
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> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 12:10 -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
> > I just installed it so i did not have any useful data. I must admit
> > though, i did not stop the database before unmerging and emerging,
> > however i did run emerge --config afterwards.
> >
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> You should have stopped the database before you remove the database
> files... Did you ever stop the database?  If not, you're still running
> 8.0 while your emerge installed 8.2 files and then the database
> naturally got confused.  The --config probably tried to connect to the
> running 8.0 service and told it do do something with the installed 8.2
> files.
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> It doesn't really matter *what* happened exactly.  The point is you
> should just start over.
>
>       * Stop postgres. kill all postgres processes.
>       * unmerge postgress
>       * remove /var/lib/postgresql
>       * re-install posgress
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