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From: Isabella Ghiurea <isabella.ghiurea@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>
To: Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Upgrade 8.3.6 issues
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:37:41 -0800
Message-ID: <499C3955.6000403@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090218162250.GB7812@cns.vt.edu>
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Thank you , that worked!
Isabella
Ray Stell wrote:
>
> btw, no dump is required to flip from 8.3x to 8.3x, but
> testing is a good thing.
>
> check the postmaster.pid
>
> [postgresql@swallowtail alerts_oamp]$ cat postmaster.pid
> 2545
> /var/database/pgsql/alerts_oamp
>   5478001         0
> alerts_oamp]$ ps -ef | grep 2545
> 500       2545     1  0 Jan11 ?        00:00:29 
> /usr/local/pgsql833/bin/postgres -D /var/database/pgsql/alerts_oamp
> 500       2546  2545  0 Jan11 ?        00:00:00 postgres: logger 
> process                                          
> 500       2548  2545  0 Jan11 ?        00:00:00 postgres: writer 
> process                                          
> 500       2549  2545  0 Jan11 ?        00:00:00 postgres: wal writer 
> process                                      
> 500       2550  2545  0 Jan11 ?        00:00:00 postgres: autovacuum 
> launcher process                             
> 500       2551  2545  0 Jan11 ?        00:00:02 postgres: stats 
> collector process                                 
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 08:09:57AM -0800, Isabella Ghiurea wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> > I'm testing for the first time a PG upgrade process, presently running
> > 8.3.4 and try to upgrade to 8.3.6. I have installed 8.3.6 in 
> separate dir
> > - run pg_dumpall using the new PG 8.3.6 version
> > - shutdown the server
> > - create a new db cluster  with 8.3.6 initdb
> > -copy   pg_gba.conf and postgres.conf to 8.3.6 PG location
> > -Now I can't start the db server using the pg 8.3.6 version ., I'm using
> > same port # default . Here is my message:
> > > pg_ctl status
> > > pg_ctl: no server running
> > >0:bin$ pg_ctl start
> > server starting
> > postgres@cvodb0:bin$ 2009-02-18 08:00:59 PST::@:[16713]:LOG:  could not
> > bind IPv6 socket: Address already in use
> > 2009-02-18 08:00:59 PST::@:[16713]:HINT:  Is another postmaster already
> > running on port 5432? If not, wait a few seconds and retry.
> > 2009-02-18 08:00:59 PST::@:[16713]:LOG:  could not bind IPv4 socket:
> > Address already in use
> > 2009-02-18 08:00:59 PST::@:[16713]:HINT:  Is another postmaster already
> > running on port 5432? If not, wait a few seconds and retry.
> > 2009-02-18 08:00:59 PST::@:[16713]:FATAL:  could not create any TCP/IP
> > sockets
> > pg_ctl status
> > pg_ctl: no server running
> >
> > What do I miss ?
> >
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