I just installed it so i did not have any useful data. I must admit though, i did not stop the database before unmerging and emerging, however i did run emerge --config afterwards.
Thanks for the replies :D 2007/10/16, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 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 > >
