‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, November 13, 2020 9:36 AM, ente <ente@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > since the upgrade of postgress from 11.9 to 12.5 I am having issues > starting up using the systemd service file. > > When I do: > > > su postgres > > postgress -D data > > it works great. When I do > > > systemctl start postgresql > > I get: An old version of the database format was found. > > Checking the database version shows it is on 12. So obviously the > systemd unit file seems to point postgres to an unexpected location. > > My system file is pointing to a non-standard location according to the > arch wiki: > [Service] > Environment=PGROOT=/pathto/pgroot > PIDFile=/pathto/pgroot/data/postmaster.pid > > Anyone else facing the same issue? Any suggestions? Yes, there is a bug. It cost me my local database.