> | The logfile is telling me this when I try to start the server with
> my
> | "old" data folder:
> |
> | FATAL: database files are incompatible with server
> | DETAIL: The database cluster was initialized with
> PG_CONTROL_VERSION
> | 738394112, but the server was compiled with PG_CONTROL_VERSION 812.
> |
> | What does it mean? I have and had 8.1 installed...
>
> I didn't follow the thread, but look at the output of
>
> $ printf "%x\n" 738394112
> 2c030000
>
> and
>
> $ printf "%x\n" 812
> 32c
>
> This looks like an endianess mismatch; did you already mention on what
> architecture you are on?
MacPro, Leopard