James Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yesterday I attempted to upgrade a system running 7.1 beta4 RPMS that I > built from the SRPM to 7.1.0 RPMS built from the SRPMS. I assumed that > since the version number difference was minor I wouldn't have a > problem If you're going to run beta releases then it behooves you to pay more attention to the mailing lists... see http://www.ca.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-announce/2001-03/msg00003.html > upgrading the server but when I tried to start it up it complained about > PG_CONTROL being set to 0 when the backend was set to 71. I created a > new data directory and copied global/pg_control to my old data > directory. The intended way to update early beta releases to 7.1 final is to run contrib/pg_resetxlog. I am not sure if this will still work for you (it'd have been a lot better if you'd asked *before* zapping your control file), but try it. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl
