Sorry for the HTML posting previously.
I've already renamed the directories and the database is up and running.
I was just wondering if anyone else had this issue and what the reason, if known, for the renaming. I completely
understandthis type of behavior when doing a major version upgrade, but not a minor version patch like this.
Thanks,
Gord
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From: Hyatt, Gordon
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:28 AM
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: v8.2.6->8.2.7 upgrade renamed /var/lib/pgsql
To all,
I just applied the v8.2.7 upgrade (from v8.2.6) on and FC8 server via yum. The upgrade went OK, but the /var/lib/pgsql
directory(with the existing data) was renamed to /var/lib/pgsql.old and a new (and empty) /var/lib/pgsql directory was
created.
Does anyone know why this would have happened?
The particular machine is an FC8, dual core AMD DELL with 4GB RAM running the x86_64 pg binaries.
I applied the same update (v8.2.6->8.2.7) to an FC7 Pentium4 box running the 32-bit pg binaries and did not have to
renamethe /var/lib/pgsql directories.
Has anyone else run into this?
Thanks, in advance,
Gord