When starting up a postmaster from an older build on a database initialized with a newer build I'm getting the following errors. I think I saw the same thing earlier going in the opposite direction too. Shouldn't there be some earlier errors firing from the control file version number?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /var/tmp/db LOG: database system was shut down at 2007-05-14 19:47:51 BST LOG: invalid magic number D061 in log file 0, segment 0, offset 0 LOG: invalid primary checkpoint record LOG: invalid magic number D061 in log file 0, segment 0, offset 0 LOG: invalid secondary checkpoint record PANIC: could not locate a valid checkpoint record LOG: startup process (PID 9590) was terminated by signal 6: Aborted LOG: aborting startup due to startup process failure -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org