Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com> writes:
> The problem is that the file, pg_control is in /var/lib/pgsql/data. There
> is no global/ directory.
Hm, you sure this was a 7.1 release system you are upgrading from?
That sounds more like 7.0.
If it was 7.0, you'll have to reinstall the 7.0 code long enough to
do a pg_dumpall. You can't update from 7.0 to 7.1 without
dump/initdb/reload, I'm afraid.
regards, tom lane