The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 1495 Logged by: Markus Bertheau Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.0.1 Operating system: Fedora Core 3 Description: RPM: wrong quoting of error message about old database format after upgrading Details:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql start 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-8.0/README.rpm-dist for more information. This is the literal output. The \n's are overquoted. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])