Re: [GENERAL] Two Versions of PostgreSQL Installed - How to uninstall one particular version

2010-02-26 Thread Albe Laurenz
Mary Y Wang wrote: I got this error: -bash-2.05b$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start server starting -bash-2.05b$ FATAL: database files are incompatible with server DETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 7.3, which is not compatible with this version 8.3.8. I

Re: [GENERAL] Two Versions of PostgreSQL Installed - How to uninstall one particular version

2010-02-26 Thread John R Pierce
Albe Laurenz wrote: If you care about the data in the 7.3 data directory, you will have to migrate it: start a 7.3 server, export with 8.3's pg_dumpall, run 8.3's initdb, import the dump. and thats not that easy with Redhat/Centos/Fedora/etc RPM installs, as installing 8.x from RPM sources

Re: [GENERAL] Two Versions of PostgreSQL Installed - How to uninstall one particular version

2010-02-26 Thread Greg Smith
Albe Laurenz wrote: To find out what PostgreSQL stuff you have installed (provided you installed it as RPM and did not compile it from source), you can run rpm -qa | grep postgres Some other useful tricks to know here; most commands take --version: $ initdb --version initdb (PostgreSQL)

[GENERAL] Two Versions of PostgreSQL Installed - How to uninstall one particular version

2010-02-25 Thread Wang, Mary Y
Hi, I got this error: -bash-2.05b$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start server starting -bash-2.05b$ FATAL: database files are incompatible with server DETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 7.3, which is not compatible with this version 8.3.8. I think I must have two

Re: [GENERAL] Two Versions of PostgreSQL Installed - How to uninstall one particular version

2010-02-25 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to Wang, Mary Y : Hi, I got this error: -bash-2.05b$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start server starting -bash-2.05b$ FATAL: database files are incompatible with server DETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 7.3, which is not compatible with this

Re: [GENERAL] Two Versions of PostgreSQL Installed - How to uninstall one particular version

2010-02-25 Thread Wang, Mary Y
-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of A. Kretschmer Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 11:04 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Two Versions of PostgreSQL Installed - How to uninstall one particular version In response to Wang, Mary Y : Hi, I got this error: -bash-2.05b

Re: [GENERAL] Two Versions of PostgreSQL Installed - How to uninstall one particular version

2010-02-25 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to Wang, Mary Y : Thanks Andreas for the info. I'm working on a development server right now, and currently I don't have any data loaded yet. As matter of fact, I was trying to load the database data from a dump file that generated by pg_dump. Here is the thing: I've a