see my operations first: [root@jhxz postgresql-8.0.8]# su postgres bash-2.05b$ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data initdb: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory bash-2.05b$ service postgresql status postmaster stopped bash-2.05b$ service postgresql start An old version of the database format was found. You need to upgrade the data format before using PostgreSQL. See /usr/share/doc/postgresql-8.0.8/README.rpm-dist for more information. bash-2.05b$ Question 1: error in initting my pgsq database, libssl.so.4, what is it? what shall i do? Question 2: the old version of database format, i have deleted old database"/usr/local/pgsql/data", but why do pgsq complain about it? there are no database in my pgsq now and no database can be updated. I have looked into the file /usr/share/doc/postgresql-8.0.8/README.rpm-dist and found nothing about this quesiton, is it this file the right manual? what should i do?
