Re: Error while upgrading from 8.4 to 9.3

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Leonardo M(dot) Ramé" <l(dot)rame(at)griensu(dot)com>
Cc: Claudio Biasatti <c(dot)biasatti(at)griensu(dot)com>, PostgreSql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Error while upgrading from 8.4 to 9.3
Date: 2014-05-28 23:56:53
Message-ID: 538677C5.3070605@aklaver.com
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On 05/28/2014 08:15 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 12:05:54PM -0300, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:

>>
>> Sorry guys, one of the in-site tech support guys started the postgresql
>> service while we were trying to do the upgrade. Looks like this was the
>> cause of the failure.
>
> OK. We block users from connecting to our own postmaster by placing the
> socket files in the current directory, but that doesn't prevent someone
> from starting the server using the default configuration. Not sure how
> we could block that.
>

So for my edification, does that mean -O ' -c
config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.3/main/postgresql.conf' could cause a
problem or that starting Postgres outside pg_upgrade could cause a
problem, or both.

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Adrian Klaver
adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com

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