Re: Error installing Postgres

Windows XP pro. I went to the postgres web site, downloads, clicked
on the binary package and selected windows. It gave me a file called
Postgresql-8.3.7-1-windows.exe

When I run that I hit next for the postgres directory, then after
hitting next for the data directory I get the error. I kept all
defaults for directories because I want to keep my existing data etc.

Christine

At 10:24 AM 22/04/2009, you wrote:
>On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 10:13 -0700, Christine Penner wrote:
> > I am upgrading from 8.3.4 to 8.3.7. That's why I'm confused. The
> > notes said I wouldn't have to do that. 8.3.4 was the original install.
>
>What OS are you running? How did you go about upgrading?
>
>Debian/Ubuntu will use --integer-datetimes by default. If the machine
>was once compiled from source you could see the problem.
>
>RedHat/Cent/Fedora has long used the incorrect default of floating based
>timestamps. If you downloaded the wrong package from pgsqlrpms then you
>could run into the error (pgsqlrpms has both --integer-datetimes and
>floating based packages (for compatibility).
>
>Joshua D. Drake
>
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