Thanks for the suggestion but the installation had updated
the start up script to read version 7.0, however the other
RPMs were not upgraded and were still 6.5. It all became
clear when I actually read the script.
I had to reinstall from the CD, so all done now :0)
Of course if I had read the README properly I would have
seen that version 7.0 doesnt run on RedHat 6.1 only 6.2,
duh.
As a suggestion to the powers though, perhaps it might be a
good idea to have the README contents on the download page,
or somewhere handy to it, I did try to find one but
couldn't.
Cheers
Alan
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Rybarczyk Mikolaj wrote regarding
"ODP: [ADMIN] I screwed it up, my installation :(": > I am
not sure but maybe this is a simple problem > with the
PostgreSQL start-up script. The script > is
/etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql. There is version > checking in
it, find line: >
> if [ `cat /var/lib/pgsql/PG_VERSION` != '6.5' ]
>
> or something like that (it depends of your instalation).
> Then find your PG_VERSION file in your data directory,
> check real number in the file (perhaps 7.0) and place
> it in the script instead of your old version (perhaps 6.5).
>
> This should help.
>
> Mikolaj.
>
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