You can't mix binaries from different versions. You are basically stuck
on 7.3.X until we can upgrade, or you can pull out the patch from CVS
and see if that works -- I am not sure if that is safe.
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Laurent Perez wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm trying to compile CVS version of Postgres to get rid of the
> heap_mark4update bug ; the lines I used were :
>
> cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot co -P
> pgsql-server
> cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot co -P
> pgsql
>
> compilation lines were :
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pgsql-cvs --without-tk --without-tcl ; make
> ; make install
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pgsql-cvs-server --without-tk --without-tcl
> ; make ; make install
>
> Whatever I do, there is no binary for initdb created in the bin/
> installation directory, I only get psql & postmaster. When I try to run
> them with my 7.3.2 pgdata dir, it fails, saying : FATAL: The data
> directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 7.3, which is not
> compatible with this version 7.4devel.
>
> How am I supposed to compile all 7.4devel binaries from CVS ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Laurent Perez
>
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