> -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Pitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 2:56 AM > To: Jon Webster; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bug#357400: Asterisk bugs > > Hi Jon, > > Jon Webster [2006-03-16 21:29 -0500]: > > I upgraded from an earlier version of postgresql to 8.1 and the home > > directory appears to have changed at some point from /var/lib/postgres > > to /var/lib/postgresql. > > > > The previous directory no longer exists, however the home directory did > > not change as evidenced from the terminal session below. > > Hmm, it's meant to be changed automatically.
The transitional postgresql package does appear to make that transition. I most likely installed postgresql/sarge then jumped straight to postgresql-8.1/etch and bypassed the transitional package. Looking at another machine running unstable and postgresql 7.4, it has both directories /var/lib/postgres/ and /var/lib/postgresql/. It also has the correct /etc/passwd entry. It probably went through the transitional package as intended. > > Reinstalling postgresql-common did not correct the entry. > > Right, that change is done by the transitional 'postgresql' package, > not by postgresql-common. Installing/upgrading the current postgresql > 7.5.16 package should help, though; does it? > > > This may be the correct behavior, but incase it's not, you've been > > warned :). > > No, it's not, thanks for you report. :) > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ ls /var/lib/post* -d > > /var/lib/postgrsql > > Now, *that* looks wrng :) > > So, to be honest, I'm not sure what happened here. 'postgrsql' doesn't > appear anywhere in the postgresql nor postgresql-common sources, and I > never heard that this path was created at some time. Do you have an > idea how this directory could have been misnamed? > The most likely place is postgresql/sarge.