Re: Installing Fedora 15 hosed my db...

On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 16:05 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jerry LeVan <jerry.levan@gmail.com> writes:
> > Yesterday I upgraded from fedora 14 to fedora 15...
> > The install process sorta trashed my 8.4 db...here is
> > what I have:
> > postgresql-server-9.0.4-1.fc15.i686
> > postgresql-pltcl-8.4.4-1PGDG.fc12.i386
> > postgresql-docs-8.4.4-1PGDG.fc12.i386
> > postgresql-libs-9.0.4-1.fc15.i686
> > postgresql-contrib-8.4.4-1PGDG.fc12.i386
> > postgresql-9.0.4-1.fc15.i686
> > postgresql-plpython-8.4.4-1PGDG.fc12.i386
> > postgresql-devel-8.4.4-1PGDG.fc12.i386
>
> > Any suggestions on how I can cleanup the mess I created *and* get
> > a complete 9.0.4 installation?
>
> Well, you could
>     (1) remove all the PGDG RPMs,
>     (2) install the regular Fedora postgresql RPMs,
>             including postgresql-upgrade
>     (3) run "service postgresql upgrade"
>
> (I haven't actually tested postgresql-upgrade in the context of
> upgrading from 8.4 PGDG RPMs instead of the regular Fedora ones, but
> in theory it should work.  As always, a filesystem backup of your
> database is a good thing to have in case of disaster.)

>             regards, tom lane

Oh snap!

I had excluded postgresql from the fedora repo because I had been using
pgdg repo.

When I enabled postgresql in the repo all of the missing rpms magically
appeared in the yumex update section :0

Jerry