Re: Running pg_upgrade Version 11

On 11/5/18 9:27 PM, rob stone wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Trying to run pg_upgrade from version 10 to version 11 on the test
> server and pulling the following error:-
>
> could not open version file: /home/postgres/testing/data_v10/PG_VERSION
> Failure, exiting
>
> O/S is:- Debian 4.18.10-2 (2018-11-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Running pg_upgrade as user postgres.
>
> These are the permissions on the version 10 file:-
>
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 3 Mar 23 2018 PG_VERSION
>
> These are the permissions on the version 11 file:-
>
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 3 Nov 6 14:50 PG_VERSION
>
> This is the command being run:-
>
> /usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin/pg_upgrade -b /usr/lib/postgresql/10/bin -B
> /usr/lib/postgresql/11/bin -d /home/postgres/testing/data_v10 -D
> /home/postgres/testing/data_v11
>
>
> Logged in as user postgres and postgres owns the files created by
> initdb, so is this a permissions problem or am I having a brain fade?

Is:

/home/postgres/testing/data_v10/

the correct path to the data directory?

What happens if you add?:

-U postgres

Maybe there is a PGUSER env variable set that is not postgres.

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> TIA,
> Rob
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