Re: [HELP] Unable to initiate database cluster

BTW, the version available at
https://www.enterprisedb.com/download-postgresql-binaries is 11.5

On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 1:12 PM Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hello.
>
> At Fri, 9 Aug 2019 03:14:29 +0000, "dsge94(at)outlook(dot)com" <
> dsge94(at)outlook(dot)com> wrote in
> <
> BN6PR03MB31720D98DD59B41083CA1364C4D60(at)BN6PR03MB3172(dot)namprd03(dot)prod(dot)outlook(dot)com
> >
> > I download the zip archives [Binaries from installer Version 11.4] from
> postgresql website (
> https://www.enterprisedb.com/download-postgresql-binaries) . The binaries
> are unzipped in the folder D:\pgsql.
> >
> > When I cd into folder D:\pgsql\bin and execute the following command
> > >> .\initdb -D E:\path\to\my\data -U postgres -W
> > I get an error. The error prompt is:
> > The program "postgres" was found by "D:/pgsql/bin/initdb.exe"
> > but was not the same version as initdb.
> > Check your installation.
> >
> > But I check both the initdb.exe and postgres.exe, only to find that
> their versions are the same (11.4)
> >
> > Is there anything wrong with my configuration? What should I do?
>
> The message means that postgres.exe is found in the same
> directory, but it is not the same version with initdb. Maybe you
> have copied the zip file partly onto existing installation of
> maybe-older version of postgresql.
>
> You will see what is wrong by running the commands with -V option
> like this.
>
> > .\initdb -V
> initdb (PostgreSQL) 11.4
> > .\postgres -V
> postgres (PostgreSQL) 13devel
>
> The versions must match exactly.
>
> regards.
>
> --
> Kyotaro Horiguchi
> NTT Open Source Software Center
>
>
>

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