Hi,
I messed up and updated my beta3 to 8.1 and didn't realize a initdb was
required.
Is there anyway I can get at the data? It's on Gentoo and the
/var/lib/postgresql/data dir is still intact.

I tried to install beta4 but got the this error:

FATAL: database files are incompatible with server
DETAIL: The database cluster was initialized with CATALOG_VERSION_NO
200510051, but the server was compiled with CATALOG_VERSION_NO 200510211.
HINT: It looks like you need to initdb.

Thanks,

Tony

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On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 16:03 -0600, Tony Caduto wrote:
> Hi,
> I messed up and updated my beta3 to 8.1 and didn't realize a initdb was
> required.
> Is there anyway I can get at the data? It's on Gentoo and the
> /var/lib/postgresql/data dir is still intact.

Install beta3, backup, install 8.1 restore.

>
> I tried to install beta4 but got the this error:
>
> FATAL: database files are incompatible with server
> DETAIL: The database cluster was initialized with CATALOG_VERSION_NO
> 200510051, but the server was compiled with CATALOG_VERSION_NO 200510211.
> HINT: It looks like you need to initdb.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tony
>
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Joshua D. Drake wrote
>> .
>>
>
> Install beta3, backup, install 8.1 restore.
>
>

That's what I wanted to do but I can't seem to find a beta3 tar.gz
anywhere, the downloads only go to beta4 :-(



Tony

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Tony Caduto <tony_caduto@amsoftwaredesign.com> writes:
>> Install beta3, backup, install 8.1 restore.

> That's what I wanted to do but I can't seem to find a beta3 tar.gz
> anywhere, the downloads only go to beta4 :-(

If you don't find a tarball, you could pull the beta3 tag from CVS.
See http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/cvs.html
The tag you want is REL8_1_0BETA3 ... too lazy to check the cvs
man page, but I think you would add "-r REL8_1_0BETA3" to the
normal cvs checkout command.

regards, tom lane

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Tom Lane wrote:
> If you don't find a tarball, you could pull the beta3 tag from CVS.
> See http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/cvs.html
> The tag you want is REL8_1_0BETA3 ... too lazy to check the cvs
> man page, but I think you would add "-r REL8_1_0BETA3" to the
> normal cvs checkout command.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
Thanks Tom,
I will give that a go.

Tony

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