On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 04:03:40 -0500,
Zeki Mokhtarzada <zeki(at)freewebz(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I recently tried to upgrade from postgresql8.0beta4 to 8.0.1. When I
> tried to start postmaster I got the following error:
>
> FATAL: database files are incompatible with server
> DETAIL: The database cluster was initialized with CATALOG_VERSION_NO
> 200410111, but the server was compiled with CATALOG_VERSION_NO 200411041.
> HINT: It looks like you need to initdb.
>
> Does this mean I have to dump and reload to get up to 8.0.1? The database
> is 15G and I'd rather not have to go through a full dump.
Yes, you need to do a dump and reload.