[GENERAL] was a initdb required from 8.1beta3 - beta4?

2005-12-02 Thread Tony Caduto
Hi, I messed up and updated my beta3 to 8.1 and didn't realize a initdb was required. Is there anyway I can get at the data? It's on Gentoo and the /var/lib/postgresql/data dir is still intact. I tried to install beta4 but got the this error: FATAL: database files are incompatible with

Re: [GENERAL] was a initdb required from 8.1beta3 - beta4?

2005-12-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 16:03 -0600, Tony Caduto wrote: Hi, I messed up and updated my beta3 to 8.1 and didn't realize a initdb was required. Is there anyway I can get at the data? It's on Gentoo and the /var/lib/postgresql/data dir is still intact. Install beta3, backup, install 8.1

Re: [GENERAL] was a initdb required from 8.1beta3 - beta4?

2005-12-02 Thread Tony Caduto
Joshua D. Drake wrote . Install beta3, backup, install 8.1 restore. That's what I wanted to do but I can't seem to find a beta3 tar.gz anywhere, the downloads only go to beta4 :-( Tony ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if

Re: [GENERAL] was a initdb required from 8.1beta3 - beta4?

2005-12-02 Thread Tom Lane
Tony Caduto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Install beta3, backup, install 8.1 restore. That's what I wanted to do but I can't seem to find a beta3 tar.gz anywhere, the downloads only go to beta4 :-( If you don't find a tarball, you could pull the beta3 tag from CVS. See

Re: [GENERAL] was a initdb required from 8.1beta3 - beta4?

2005-12-02 Thread Tony Caduto
Tom Lane wrote: If you don't find a tarball, you could pull the beta3 tag from CVS. See http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/cvs.html The tag you want is REL8_1_0BETA3 ... too lazy to check the cvs man page, but I think you would add -r REL8_1_0BETA3 to the normal cvs checkout command.