On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Atri Sharma 
<atri.jiit@gmail.com> wrote:
 Hi,
 I am running PostgreSQL 9.1 currently and I want to run 9.2beta2
 simultaneously with it.Is it possible?
Yes, You can have multiple  PostgreSQL versions on same host.
 I downloaded the 9.2beta2 sources,untared them and ran
 ./configure,make and make install without uninstalling 9.1.
./configure --prefix=<new location of PostgreSQL 9.2 beta2 binaries>
make
make install
<new location of PostgreSQL 9.2 beta2 binaries>/bin/initdb -D <new data directory location of 9.2beta2>
modify "Port" number in postgresql.conf file located under  <new data directory location of 9.2beta2>
<new location of PostgreSQL 9.2 beta2 binaries>/bin/pg_ctl -D <new data directory location of 9.2beta2> start
 
 Now,when I am running pg_ctl start,I am getting the following error:
  pg_ctl start
 server starting
 gitc@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ FATAL:  database files are incompatible with server
 DETAIL:  The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 9.1,
 which is not compatible with this version 9.2beta2.
 Please help me.What should I be doing to recover from this error and
 get back to 9.1?
Suspecting for this error message is, binaries upgraded upto 9.2beta2 & PostgreSQL instance running with PostgreSQL 9.1 binaries and again you are trying to start instance with pg_ctl of 9.2beta2 binary. 
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Thanks & Regards,
Raghu Ram