Error: The package catalog database is for a later dds version

If you receive this error, it indicates that the schema version of a catalog database is newer than the schema expected by the dds process that is trying to actually make use of the catalog. dds catalog databases are not forwards-compatible and cannot be downgraded.

If you generated/modified the catalog using a dds executable that is newer than the one you attempted to open it with, it is possible that the newer dds executable performed a schema upgrade that is unsupported by the older version of dds.

If you have not specified a path to a catalog, dds will use the user-local default catalog database. If you receive this error while using the user-local database, the solution is to either upgrade dds to match the newer catalog or to delete the user-local catalog database file.

Note

Deleting the catalog database will lose any customizations that were contained in that catalog, and they will need to be reconstructed.