Re: downgrading to 7.3.2 from 7.4.1 under Cygwin

You can choose the PG version using cygwin installer.
If you have already PG 7.4 installed, you can select
  -keep,
  -reinstall,
  -source,
  -7.3.4-2  <-- what you need
  -Uninstall

Regards,
Janko Richter

Együd Csaba wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I've refreshed my Cygwin distribution and haven't noticed that postgres is
> also being upgradeing. So it has been upgraded to version 7.4.1. Starting
> "pg_ctl start -D /usr/local/psql/data -m fast  2>&1 &" sends an error
> message like this:
>
> $ FATAL:  database files are incompatible with server
> DETAIL:  The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 7.3, which
> is not compatible with this version 7.4.
>
> I'd like to downgrade to 7.3.2 because all my customer run that versin and I
> have to test my software on that version. Should anybody suggest me ho to do
> that?
> I've already rerun Cygwin installer, but since it was running many times the
> previous config opiton doesn't "remember" my earliest version of postgres. I
> can't force it to downgrade. :o(
>
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