On 18/01/2008, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > What would work better is to add some code that checks whether > > pg_control_version looks like the byte-swap of a small number, > > and prints a suitably modified error message if so. > > Here is a possible patch. Example output: > > $ pg-install/bin/postgres -D pg-install/var/data > FATAL: database files are incompatible with server > DETAIL: The database cluster was initialized with PG_CONTROL_VERSION > 1090715648 (0x41030000), but the server was compiled with PG_CONTROL_VERSION > 833 (0x00000341). > HINT: This could be a mismatched byte order. It looks like you need to > initdb. > > I didn't follow how the user got into this mess, so I don't know whether the > suggestion "you need to initdb" is appropriate.
I would think not, as you almost certainly must be doing a file level restore of the data directory to get into this state and therefore probably want to keep your data. /D ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org