Re: 8.3 Beta Incompatible Data Disaster

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Mark Walker <markrjgwalker(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 8.3 Beta Incompatible Data Disaster
Date: 2008-01-10 14:54:29
Message-ID: 20080110145429.GF6465@alvh.no-ip.org
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Mark Walker escribió:
> Ignoring the warnings not to use a beta product on a production database I
> had been running 8.3beta1. When I saw that it had hit 8.3RC1 I decided to
> upgrade and folowing the usual data compatibility within major versions I
> did not do a pg_dump, in fact my last dump was when I loaded the beta on
> 10th October. I get the following error
> FATAL: database files are incompatible with server
> Unfortunately, I cannot find my copy of the beta1 source files and they are
> no longer available on the internet.

You can grab the 8.3 beta 1 sources using the CVS repository and the tag
REL8_3_BETA1.

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