Re: pg_upgrade difficulties

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org Admin" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_upgrade difficulties
Date: 2011-09-14 00:31:07
Message-ID: 16242.1315960267@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> writes:
> waiting for server to start....../usr/pgsql-9.1/bin/pg_ctl: symbol
> lookup error: /usr/pgsql-9.1/bin/pg_ctl: undefined symbol: PQping

> There were problems executing "/usr/pgsql-9.1/bin/pg_ctl" -w -l
> "upgrade.log" -D "/var/lib/pgsql/9.1/data" -o "-p 5432 -b" start >>
> "upgrade.log" 2>&1

This looks like your pg_ctl executable is mistakenly getting linked to a
pre-9.1 version of libpq.so. Don't know enough about the file layout in
the current PGDG RPMs to speculate as to why.

regards, tom lane

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