[Pkg-postgresql-public] Bug#714328: postgresql-9.3: Postinstall script fails

[Diederik de Haas]

Package: postgresql-9.3
Version: 9.3~beta2-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

While running aptitude safe-upgrade, the post-install scripts fails:
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  postgresql-9.3 
  No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
  0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
  upgraded.
  Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
  Setting up postgresql-9.3 (9.3~beta2-1) ...
  [....] Starting PostgreSQL 9.3 database server: main[....] The
  PostgreSQL server failed to start. Please check the log output:
  2013-06-28 01:43:16 CEST FATAL: database files are incompatible with
  server 2013-06-28 01:43:16 CEST DETAIL: The database cluster was
  initialized with CATALOG_VERSION_NO 201305061, but [FAILerver was
  compiled with CATALOG_VERSION_NO 201306121. 2013-06-28 01:43:16 CEST
  HINT: It looks like you need to initdb. ... failed!
  failed!
  invoke-rc.d: initscript postgresql, action "start" failed.
  dpkg: error processing postgresql-9.3 (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
  status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
  postgresql-9.3
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
  Setting up postgresql-9.3 (9.3~beta2-1) ...
  [....] Starting PostgreSQL 9.3 database server: main[....] The
  PostgreSQL server failed to start. Please check the log output:
  2013-06-28 01:43:18 CEST FATAL: database files are incompatible
  with server 2013-06-28 01:43:18 CEST DETAIL: The database cluster
  was initialized with CATALOG_VERSION_NO 201305061, but [FAILerver
  was compiled with CATALOG_VERSION_NO 201306121. 2013-06-28 01:43:18
  CEST HINT: It looks like you need to initdb. ... failed!
  failed!
  invoke-rc.d: initscript postgresql, action "start" failed.
  dpkg: error processing postgresql-9.3 (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
  status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
  postgresql-9.3

Note that I've recently install postgresql for the first time and I've
only created 1 db to 'play'. 
If I need to do 'things' with postgresql to provide additional
information, you'll likely have to tell me how to do it.
I am familiar with (adminstrating) Debian though.

Cheers,
  Diederik

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages postgresql-9.3 depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.17-5
ii  libcomerr2             1.42.8-1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.10.1+dfsg-6
ii  libkrb5-3              1.10.1+dfsg-6
ii  libldap-2.4-2          2.4.31-1+nmu2
ii  libpam0g               1.1.3-9
ii  libpq5                 9.3~beta2-1
ii  libssl1.0.0            1.0.1e-3
ii  libxml2                2.9.1+dfsg1-2
ii  locales                2.17-5
ii  postgresql-client-9.3  9.3~beta2-1
ii  postgresql-common      145
ii  ssl-cert               1.0.32
ii  tzdata                 2013c-2

postgresql-9.3 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages postgresql-9.3 suggests:
pn  locales-all             <none>
pn  oidentd | ident-server  <none>

-- no debconf information