Re: pg recovery

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Bernhard D Rohrer <graylion(at)sm-wg(dot)net> writes:
> I have a broken database and not much clue about postgres, sorry for the 
> n00b questions :(

I think you've got a cross-version problem, as in the database is really
PG 8.0 or earlier but you're trying to run 8.1 against it.  What is in
the PG_VERSION file?  Have you done "pg_resetxlog -f", and if so do you
have the original pg_control file to put back?

			regards, tom lane