I get the same "weird" errors (WAL file is from different database system)
too with Ubuntu and Postgresql 9.3 when setting up a slave using rsync.
1. I installed postgresql on the slave (which automatically does the
initdb):
sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.3
2. Modified my postgresql.conf file
(/etc/postgresql/9.3/main/postgresql.conf) to make it a slave. Did the same
thing for pg_hba.conf adding my replication user in there.
3. Stopped both master and slave.
4. Did the rsync from the master to the slave excluding pg_xlog (thereby
leaving the existing pg_xlog contents on the slave intact).
Then I get the same errors (WAL file is from different database system).
Now if I delete everything from the data directory on the slave, including
the pg_xlog directory, and then do the rsync excluding the pg_xlog
directory, the cluster won't start because the pg_xlog directory is not
there.
But if I rsync with the pg_xlog directory, then I do not get any more
messages in the log file, whether I had the installation data directory in
place, or I deleted everything from the data directory before the rsync.
So it seems in this version of Postgresql 9.3 on Ubuntu, you should NOT
exclude pg_xlog when rsyncin' the stuff over.
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