Yes, AFAIK, this machine is using the standard Fedora update repository.
I'll just chalk this up to "anomalous behaviour of unknown origin" and
add this to my test-after-updates checklist.
Thanks,
Gord
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 7:38 PM
> To: Hyatt, Gordon
> Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] v8.2.6->8.2.7 upgrade renamed /var/lib/pgsql
>
> "Hyatt, Gordon" <Gordon.Hyatt@joslin.harvard.edu> writes:
> > 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.
>
> That's just weird. I tried the same here (also on an x86_64 F-8 box)
> and didn't see it happen. Are you using the standard Fedora update
> repository?
>
> regards, tom lane