Re: Invalid magic number in log file?

Gregory Stark wrote:
> 
> When starting up a postmaster from an older build on a database initialized
> with a newer build I'm getting the following errors. I think I saw the same
> thing earlier going in the opposite direction too. Shouldn't there be some
> earlier errors firing from the control file version number?
> 
> stark@oxford:~$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /var/tmp/db
> LOG:  database system was shut down at 2007-05-14 19:47:51 BST
> LOG:  invalid magic number D061 in log file 0, segment 0, offset 0
> LOG:  invalid primary checkpoint record
> LOG:  invalid magic number D061 in log file 0, segment 0, offset 0
> LOG:  invalid secondary checkpoint record
> PANIC:  could not locate a valid checkpoint record
> LOG:  startup process (PID 9590) was terminated by signal 6: Aborted
> LOG:  aborting startup due to startup process failure

Huh, works for me, what versions were those?

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