Re: Data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 8.3

> I'm assuming the problem is because the PG_VERSION file in the data
> directory says 8.3, so I'm making a copy of the directory, changing that
to
> 8.2 and see if it will start with that.

Well that didn't work!
[postgres@stirling pgData-8.2]$ pg_ctl -o '-i' start
server starting
2007-07-25 12:13:25 EST @ []FATAL:  database files are incompatible with
server
2007-07-25 12:13:25 EST @ []DETAIL:  The database cluster was initialized
with PG_CONTROL_VERSION 831, but the server was compiled with
PG_CONTROL_VERSION 822.
2007-07-25 12:13:25 EST @ []HINT:  It looks like you need to initdb.


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