Re: [GENERAL] Restoreing from a Unix TAR backup of data directory...

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org (The Hermit Hacker)
Cc: jay(at)summet(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Restoreing from a Unix TAR backup of data directory...
Date: 1999-03-16 22:21:24
Message-ID: 199903162221.RAA20861@candle.pha.pa.us
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>
> I'm going to make your day here, but you might not, in fact, have v6.1
> databases...they might be newer then that :(
>
> When we were just starting out, we hadn't perfected everything, and, in
> some releases, failed up to update the PG_VERSION data :(
>
> Last night, talking with a friend of mine, I clued into the fact that we
> do do branches on the CVS repository *d'oh* ... the problem is that I have
> pre-6.0 and 6.3+ branches only...its only something we just started
> doing...
>
> I'm trying to pull out a v6.3 source tree right now, and will email you
> once its available...if I'm right, this *might* help you. Don't hold your
> breath, but its an attempt ...

I am dying here too. I do remember 6.? not updating PG_VERSION. My
guess now, as Marc has suspected, is that he is running 6.2.*.

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