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From: Rafael Barrera Oro <borafael@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql weird incompatibility problem
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:26:48
Message-Id: a964044f0710160810v3bd44f24wf6155448bd0b3963@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql weird incompatibility problem by Albert Hopkins
1 I just installed it so i did not have any useful data. I must admit though,
2 i did not stop the database before unmerging and emerging, however i did run
3 emerge --config afterwards.
4
5 Thanks for the replies :D
6
7 2007/10/16, Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>:
8 >
9 >
10 > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:53 -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
11 > > I unmerged postgresql 8.0.3 in order to emerge 8.2.x, now when i try
12 > > to do anything i get the following message:
13 > >
14 > > psql: FATAL: database files are incompatible with server
15 > > DETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 8.2,
16 > > which is not compatible with this version 8.0.13.
17 > >
18 > > i deleted previous /var/lib/postgresql in order to be able to emerge
19 > > the new version, so i am clueless...
20 > >
21 > > does this ring a bell for anyone?
22 >
23 > Did you stop postgres *before* uninstalling it and
24 > removing /var/lib/postgresql? Also did you "emerge --config
25 > postgresql-..." *after* installing the new postgres?
26 >
27 > --
28 > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list
29 >
30 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql weird incompatibility problem Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>