[Forwarding to the list. Please keep the list copied; for one thing, there is likely to be someone there who has heard of Arch Linux or pacman, which I have not. This is more of a question regarding how the packagers for that distro intend for upgrades to occur, not a bug in PostgreSQL itself.] Dedanna <deda...@bjoernvold.com> wrote:
I ran in Arch Linux, from the repos, pacman -Syu, and postgresql updated. That's all I know. I've successfully downgraded since, to: pacman -Q postgresql postgresql 8.4.4-6 The update initially was from regular updates. It was an update I didn't expect, btw - so just ran it and let it roll like any other. Loaded up Amarok1 in Arch, where I use it for my musicdb, and found that postgresql wasn't running that way. I tried to start it manually, tried rebooting, etc. - nothing worked. Kevin Grittner wrote: > "Kim Garren"<deda...@bjoernvold.com> wrote: > > >> Received update to postgresql 9.0.1-2 yesterday >> > > How? From where? What were you running before? > > >> Once booted, I try to start it manually, with the following >> result: >> >> # /etc/rc.d/postgresql start >> :: Starting PostgreSQL >> [BUSY] server starting >> >> [DONE] >> > > What is showing for `ps aux | grep postgres` ? What is in the > logs? > > >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=107656 >> > > >> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21560 >> > > Both of these make it sound like you were upgrading from > PostgreSQL > 8.4. This requires a database conversion. What technique did you > use for that? (The more specific you can be about the exact > steps, the more likely it is that someone will be able to help you.) > > >> I have lost my music db because of this. >> > > Not unless you deleted your data directory. If you don't back it > up regularly, it would certainly be wise to do so before a major > release upgrade. Making a recursive copy of the database data > directory would be a very good idea right now. > > -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
