Provide a clearer error message if the pg_control version number looks

wrong because of mismatched byte ordering.
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Peter Eisentraut 2008-01-21 11:17:46 +00:00
parent 1e985720eb
commit 6f8f8d2daa
2 changed files with 18 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2008, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
* Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
*
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c,v 1.291 2008/01/01 19:45:48 momjian Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c,v 1.292 2008/01/21 11:17:46 petere Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -3888,6 +3888,16 @@ ReadControlFile(void)
* of bytes. Complaining about wrong version will probably be more
* enlightening than complaining about wrong CRC.
*/
if (ControlFile->pg_control_version != PG_CONTROL_VERSION && ControlFile->pg_control_version % 65536 == 0 && ControlFile->pg_control_version / 65536 != 0)
ereport(FATAL,
(errmsg("database files are incompatible with server"),
errdetail("The database cluster was initialized with PG_CONTROL_VERSION %d (0x%08x),"
" but the server was compiled with PG_CONTROL_VERSION %d (0x%08x).",
ControlFile->pg_control_version, ControlFile->pg_control_version,
PG_CONTROL_VERSION, PG_CONTROL_VERSION),
errhint("This could be a problem of mismatched byte ordering. It looks like you need to initdb.")));
if (ControlFile->pg_control_version != PG_CONTROL_VERSION)
ereport(FATAL,
(errmsg("database files are incompatible with server"),
@ -3895,6 +3905,7 @@ ReadControlFile(void)
" but the server was compiled with PG_CONTROL_VERSION %d.",
ControlFile->pg_control_version, PG_CONTROL_VERSION),
errhint("It looks like you need to initdb.")));
/* Now check the CRC. */
INIT_CRC32(crc);
COMP_CRC32(crc,

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@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
* copyright (c) Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>, 2001;
* licence: BSD
*
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/pg_controldata/pg_controldata.c,v 1.35 2007/04/03 04:14:26 tgl Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/bin/pg_controldata/pg_controldata.c,v 1.36 2008/01/21 11:17:46 petere Exp $
*/
#include "postgres.h"
@ -151,6 +151,11 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
printf(_("pg_control version number: %u\n"),
ControlFile.pg_control_version);
if (ControlFile.pg_control_version % 65536 == 0 && ControlFile.pg_control_version / 65536 != 0)
printf(_("WARNING: possible byte ordering mismatch\n"
"The byte ordering used to store the pg_control file might not match the one\n"
"used by this program. In that case the results below would be incorrect, and\n"
"the PostgreSQL installation would be incompatible with this data directory.\n"));
printf(_("Catalog version number: %u\n"),
ControlFile.catalog_version_no);
printf(_("Database system identifier: %s\n"),