Re: Installation 8.4 > 9.1

Dear Kevin,

Just to say thanks and that I've sorted this now. I ended up backing
up all my databases, totally uninstalling anything to do with
PostgreSQL or PostGIS, and then reinstalling. I then restored my
databases. Everything seems to be working fine now.

James

On 1 February 2013 13:54, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> wrote:
> James David Smith <james(dot)david(dot)smith(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> James David Smith <james(dot)david(dot)smith(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've got myself into a bit of a mess with my versions. I'm
>>>> running Windows 7 on a 64bit machine. When I start PgAdmin I get two servers -
>>>> 8.4 and 9.1, both running on the same port number. I can double click
>>>> and login to either of them fine - although when I do SELECT VERSION()
>>>> in either of them, it always says 8.4. So I suspect that although it's
>>>> allowing me to double click and login to version 9, it's just kidding
>>>> me. I tested this by going into Windows Services and manually
>>>> disabling 8.4 server - and then trying to login to 9.1 through
>>>> PgAdmin. I got this message:
>>>> __________
>>>> could not connect to server: connection refused
>>>> (0x0000274D/10061) Is the server running on host "localhost" (::1) and
>>>> accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432? could not connect to
>>>> server: Connection refused (0x0000274D/10061) Is the server running on
>>>> host "localhost" (127.0.0.1) and accepting TCP/IP connections on port
>>>> 5432?
>>>> __________
>>>>
>>>> Could someone guide me as the best way to sort this mess out please?
>>>
>>> It's going to be hard for anyone to make any concrete suggetions
>>> without more detail about the exact steps you took to get into your
>>> current predicament.
>>
>> I've had 8.4 installed for a year or so. Then
>> about six months ago, maybe longer, I downloaded the 9.1 binary and
>> installed it. I thought it would overwrite the 8.4, but instead if
>> seemed to install alongside it. I didn't think that this was a
>> problem, and indeed I thought that I was using version 9 until today
>> when I did SELECT VERSION () and found out that I wasn't. It might
>> have been longer before I spotted but I was trying to use one of the
>> new functions in 9.1 and it didn't work - hence checking my version.
>
> So it sounds like you haven't actually created anything in the 9.1
> cluster yet? If that is true, I owuld configure the 9.1 cluster to
> use a different port. It also needs to have a different data
> directory, but if it is startign up OK when there is no port
> collision, that must already be covered. I would start both, and
> run pg_dumpall (from the bin directory for 9.1) to dump the 8.4
> cluster and pipe the output to the 9.1 server.
>
> -Kevin