Mini HOWTO: Upgrade PostgreSQL database in Fedora
The main problem in upgrading PostgreSQL databases is downgrading to previous version of the RDBMS, especially if you accidentally updates the software but forget to make the database dump. I have faced the same problem and find it's not so easy task. So let me show my solution for this: The problem: after OS upgrade I have PostgreSQL 8.4, and can't start it because the database format is incompatible and suited for PSQL 8.3 only. Install required YUM-configuration for the version of PosgreSQL you want to install, for my case PostgreSQL 8.3. There is an excellent http://yum.pgrpms.org/ website, which provides required rpms: $ sudo rpm -ivh http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/reporpms/8.3/pgdg-fedora-8.3-7.noarch.rpm Remove the current PostgreSQL installation. It requires few steps (there is no easy way to delete postgresql-libs because there are too many dependencies): Get the list of postgresql packages: $ rpm -qa | grep postgresql postgresql-server-8.4.3-1.fc12.i686 postgresql-