On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:53 -0300, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > I unmerged postgresql 8.0.3 in order to emerge 8.2.x, now when i try > to do anything i get the following message: > > psql: FATAL: database files are incompatible with server > DETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 8.2, > which is not compatible with this version 8.0.13. > > i deleted previous /var/lib/postgresql in order to be able to emerge > the new version, so i am clueless... > > does this ring a bell for anyone?
Did you stop postgres *before* uninstalling it and removing /var/lib/postgresql? Also did you "emerge --config postgresql-..." *after* installing the new postgres? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list