Somehow in upgrading from 7.1.2 to 7.1.3 (and with much operator error along the way), my database became corrupted. I believe it is only the pg_control file that was damaged. The database was completely shutdown at the time. Is there anyway to create a new pg_control file, based on the contents of the database itself? The symptoms are that the data/global/1262 file has a file size of 8192 bytes and a time stamp of last June. data/global/pg_control has a file size of 16384 bytes and a time stamp of today. When the postmaster starts up, it tells me that: database was initialized with BLCKSZ 16384, but the backend was compiled with BLCKSZ 8192. looks like you need an initdb. Bleh! I would prefer to not waste my db, and I assume initdb will do just that. Can anything be done to recover the pg_control file? Thanks, Jerry ======================================================== Jerry Asher [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1678 Shattuck Avenue Suite 161 Tel: (510) 549-2980 Berkeley, CA 94709 Fax: (877) 311-8688 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster