"Dave Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 18/01/2008, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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 (0x4103), but
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. E
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
