Re: Server format and recovery

The problem was that! I reinstalled the OS using the 64bit version and
copied the postgres data dir and it worked!

Thank you!

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Márcio Aguiar Ribeiro
<aguiar.marcio@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the fast response!
>
>  The hardware was the same of the previous, but I'm not sure about
>  Ubuntu version.
>  As I got the whole old server backup, I know that the Postgres version
>  is 8.2 by looking at the PGVERSION file. Not sure if it is 8.2.5, but
>  I imagined that it wouldn't make much difference.
>
>  I installed the postgres via apt-get, and the installation structure
>  was the same of the previous one. I even tried to copy the whole
>  Postgres  installation from the backup, but when I try to start the
>  server with the postgres command, I receive an error from the OS
>  saying it was impossible to execute the binaries. Now I'm thinking
>  that a 64bit version was installed.
>
>  I'll try to investigate this a little further and keep up with you.
>
>  Thanks for the help!
>
>
>
>  On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>  > Shane Ambler <pgsql@Sheeky.Biz> writes:
>  >
>  > > Márcio Aguiar Ribeiro wrote:
>  >  >> "FATAL:  database files are incompatible with server
>  >  >> The database cluster was initialized with MAXALIGN 0, but the server
>  >  >> waas compiled with MAXALIGN 4." (translated from my language to
>  >  >> english by me)
>  >
>  >
>  > > My first guess is that the new postgresql binaries are 64 bit but the
>  >  > old install was 32 bit. (I don't actually know the conditions for the
>  >  > MAXALIGN value)
>  >
>  >  That's what I'm guessing too; see the previous report here:
>  >
>  >  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2007-12/msg00254.php
>  >  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2008-01/msg00023.php
>  >
>  >  The symptoms are a bit different (eg, large value instead of zero
>  >  for MAXALIGN) but that's not too surprising considering that 8.1
>  >  and 8.2 have different sets of fields in pg_control.
>  >
>  >  You'll need to get binaries that matched your originals and then
>  >  reinstall the database from your backup.
>  >
>  >                         regards, tom lane
>  >
>
>
>
>  --
>  Marcio Aguiar Ribeiro
>



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