Re: pg_upgrade not detecting version properly

Chris Ernst <cernst@zvelo.com>

From: Chris Ernst <cernst@zvelo.com>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-10-10T16:35:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general
On 10/10/2012 09:56 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Can you show me what is in the PG_VERSION file in the old cluster?  It
> should be "9.1".

Hi Bruce,

Thank you for the reply.  Indeed it is "9.1":

# cat /postgresql/9.1/main/PG_VERSION
9.1

And just for good measure:

cat /postgresql/9.2/main/PG_VERSION
9.2

And there are no other PostgreSQL versions on this machine.

Hmm... I was just about to send this when something else occurred to me.
 I had initially tried to run pg_upgrade as root and it said it couldn't
be run as root.  So I've been running it as my own user (which is in the
postgres group).  However, everything in /postgresql/9.1/main is owned
by postgres with 700 permissions.

I switched to the postgres user and now pg_upgrade is running.  Perhaps
just a more informative error message is in order.

Thank you for the shove in the right direction =)

Cheers!

	- Chris