Re: Postgres upgrade trouble

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 07:15:41AM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/pgupgrade.html
> Description:
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> This is a non IT specialist question / comments. I like postgres, except the
> current automatic upgrade mechanism working on my server...
> On my Ubuntu 16.04 machine, when a postgres upgrade comes and installs
> automatically, this creates a real nightmare: neither pgAdminIII not my
> application can access the DB. (connection refused. Is the server running...
> ...on port 5432?)
> Trying to understand in the documentation what to do is very difficult
> because there is no clear example on how to retreive the 'old' or 'new'
> parameters. So, I wonder why there is no automatic mechanism coming with the
> upgrade to change the settings automatically, or alternatively to keep the
> 'old' version up and running correctly (and in this case the end user should
> have an easy way to know that he has to launch an upgrade when he wants to,
> and an utility -for instance in pgAdmin- should guide him along this upgrade
> mechanism, ensuring I do not loose time nor any data).
> Thanks for your efforts to offer Postgres to the IT community!

This is really something for you to address with Ubuntu. The Postgres
community provides the tools, but the user interface is often up to the
packagers. I agree the interface is complex.

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