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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql weird incompatibility problem
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:21:47
Message-Id: 1192546472.11684.8.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] postgresql weird incompatibility problem by Rafael Barrera Oro
1 On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:53 -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
2 > I unmerged postgresql 8.0.3 in order to emerge 8.2.x, now when i try
3 > to do anything i get the following message:
4 >
5 > psql: FATAL: database files are incompatible with server
6 > DETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 8.2,
7 > which is not compatible with this version 8.0.13.
8 >
9 > i deleted previous /var/lib/postgresql in order to be able to emerge
10 > the new version, so i am clueless...
11 >
12 > does this ring a bell for anyone?
13
14 Did you stop postgres *before* uninstalling it and
15 removing /var/lib/postgresql? Also did you "emerge --config
16 postgresql-..." *after* installing the new postgres?
17
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Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql weird incompatibility problem Rafael Barrera Oro <borafael@×××××.com>