On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:13:08 +0200, Jarkko Elfving <jarelf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. > > I've started to learn SQL about 6 months ago, and now I'd upgraded > PostgreSQL 7.4 to new release 8.0. After upgrading I start to read the > README file (how stupid I was) and there were instructions to how to do > it; the upgrade I mean. Now I'm wondering, server is not running because > fileformat or something like that is wrong - I did the upgrade wrongly. > I do not have any relevant data in the Postgre database, so I don't need > to backup it (which was one point of the upgrading). How I must have to > proceed that I can start the Postgre server? Do I use the initdb command > and if I do, how I do it with default locations? I'm very new on > PostgreSQL and do not have much experience on SQL. I'm running on FC3. > > I hope that you understand what my problem is. I will explain more, if > you don't. If you don't care about losing your data, you can fix this by shutting down postgresql, deleting the contents of /var/lib/pgsql/data and then starting postgresql again. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@xxxxxxxxx LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
