Ian Johnson wrote:
Hi List

I want to develop an application in PostgreSQL but when starting the
service I get the following message:

An old version of the database format was found.
You need to upgrade the data format before using PostgreSQL.
See /usr/share/doc/postgresql-8.1.4/README.rpm-dist for more
information.

I am running Fedora Core 5 but initially had built the system with
Fedora Core 3, with PostgreSQL installed and automatically updated it
over the past 2 years.  I may have created a test database 2 years ago
which may be the source of the problem.  Is this the source of the
problem?  I could find nothing in README.rpm-dist that helps.

Yep - you have an old installation still there. The RPM probably refused to destroy the old installation without approval from you. You'll need to initdb the directory (see the online manuals for how to run initdb, or check the RPM /etc/init.d/ scripts)

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd

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