Re: Upgrade from 8.4.13 to 9.2.0.1 successful but it still displays 8.4.13 if SELECT version(); - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hi thanks,

I ran ps and found there were TWO postgresql

postgres  1124  0.0  0.1  45116  5480 ?        S    Sep23   0:01 /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/postgres -D
/var/lib/postgresql/8.4/main-c config_file=/etc/postgresql/8.4/main/postgresql.conf 
postgres  1133  0.0  0.0  45116  1984 ?        Ss   Sep23   0:03 postgres: writer process
                                                                     
postgres  1134  0.0  0.0  45116  1292 ?        Ss   Sep23   0:03 postgres: wal writer process
                                                                     
postgres  1135  0.0  0.0  45252  1560 ?        Ss   Sep23   0:01 postgres: autovacuum launcher process
                                                                     
postgres  1136  0.0  0.0  13284  1252 ?        Ss   Sep23   0:01 postgres: stats collector process
                                                                     
postgres  9429  0.0  0.1  43644  7140 ?        S    Sep23   0:00 /usr/lib/postgresql/9.2/bin/postgres -D
/var/lib/postgresql/9.2/main-c config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.2/main/postgresql.conf 
postgres  9431  0.0  0.0  43644  1272 ?        Ss   Sep23   0:00 postgres: checkpointer process
                                                                     
postgres  9432  0.0  0.0  43644  1408 ?        Ss   Sep23   0:00 postgres: writer process
                                                                     
postgres  9433  0.0  0.0  43644  1212 ?        Ss   Sep23   0:00 postgres: wal writer process
                                                                     
postgres  9434  0.0  0.0  44040  2148 ?        Ss   Sep23   0:00 postgres: autovacuum launcher process
                                                                     
postgres  9435  0.0  0.0  13868  1140 ?        Ss   Sep23   0:00 postgres: stats collector process
                                                                     

Regards
Arthur

On 24 Sep 2012, at 4:45 AM, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:

> On 23/09/2012 19:31, Martin Collins wrote:
>> On 23/09/12 11:48, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>>> On 09/23/2012 04:47 AM, ac@hsk.hk wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have upgraded postgresql 8.4.13 to 9.2.0.1 O/S Ubuntu, restarted
>>>> postgresql, it displayed my postgresql is 9.2 but when I log into
>>>> postgresql, show version, it is still 8.4.13, see a) and b)
>>>> below,
>>>>
>>>
>>> My guess is it installed a parallel version of Postgres for 9.2 and
>>> that 8.4.13 is listening to the default port of 5432 which is what
>>> you are connecting to. The 9.2 version is probably listening on
>>> another port(at a guess 5433). I would do a ps ax to confirm there is
>>> more than one instance of Postgres running.
>>
>> This is correct. Ubuntu (Debian really) installs the new vesion in
>> parallel and provides the pg_upgradecluster tool to migrate your old
>> data to the new version. Once you are satisfied that everything is
>> working you can use pg_dropcluster to remove the old data and you can
>> then uninstall 8.4.
>
> I've just discovered pg_lsclusters, another Debian tool, which lists all
> installed Postgres clusters, their ports, data directories, etc - really
> handy.
>
> Ray.
>
>
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