2009/9/29 Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com> > I recently upgraded PostgreSQL, and now this happens: > > # /etc/init.d/postgresql start > > An old version of the database format was found. > You need to upgrade the data format before using PostgreSQL. > See /usr/share/doc/postgresql-8.3.8/README.rpm-dist for more information. >
apparently your upgrade procedure was far from perfect. > > Unfortunately, I upgraded due to a hardware failure, and can't > dump/undump, since I don't have the old PostgreSQL server anymore. > > Can I upgrade the data format w/o installing Postgres 7.2 (my > "data/base/1/PG_VERSION" file says "7.2")? > > no. > If not, can Fedora 11's "yum" install Postgres 7.2 (so I can at least > do a clean install/uninstall and then re-install 8.3.8)? > > Don't know, but I'd rather try this: compile 7.2 from source, bring up a temporary postgres 7.2 instance, dump it (using pg_dumpall from 8.3), and load the dump into 8.3. -- Filip Rembiałkowski JID,mailto:filip.rembialkow...@gmail.com http://filip.rembialkowski.net/
