In response to Wang, Mary Y :
> Hi,
>
> I got this error:
> "-bash-2.05b$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start
> server starting
> -bash-2.05b$ FATAL: database files are incompatible with server
> DETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 7.3, which is not compatible with this version
8.3.8."
>
> I think I must have two versions of Postgres installed. How do I
> uninstall the 7.3 version? Do I need to do a manual uninstall by
> removing Postgres related files from /usr/bin and etc? Or is there an
> automatic way? The problem is that I'm unclear what files need to be
> removed. I think might also need to delete a file in the /etc/init.d
> directory.
I think, you have a problem ;-)
You have a data directory initialized by PostgreSQL version 7.3. Because
of this, you need a running 7.3-Server to acces to this data. But you
have installed 8.3.8.
You should now install a 7.3 - Server tu access to the data. Make a
Backup of the data-directory before!
If the 7.3 - Server is running, you can make a Backup. You should make
this Backup with the 8.3-Server (yes, you can have multiple versions
installed on the same computer and the same time)
Regards, Andreas
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