Re: Issue upgrading from 9.5 to 13 with pg_upgrade: "connection to database failed: FATAL: database "template1" does not exist"

> On Nov 13, 2020, at 11:39 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:
>
> This does not show trying to connect to a database. It would help to list the commands run and then the corresponding
logportions. 

bash-4.4$ "/usr/pgsql-13/bin/pg_ctl" -w -l "pg_upgrade_server.log" -D "/var/lib/pgsql/13/data" -o "-p 5432 -b -c
synchronous_commit=off-c fsync=off -c full_page_writes=off -c vacuum_defer_cleanup_age=0  -c listen_addresses='' -c
unix_socket_permissions=0700-c unix_socket_directories='/var/run/postgresql'" start 
waiting for server to start.... done
server started
bash-4.4$ psql postgres
psql: error: could not connect to server: FATAL:  database "postgres" does not exist

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2020-11-13 11:39:38.378 EST [205747] LOG:  starting PostgreSQL 13.0 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 8.3.1
20191121(Red Hat 8.3.1-5), 64-bit 
2020-11-13 11:39:38.378 EST [205747] LOG:  listening on Unix socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"
2020-11-13 11:39:38.382 EST [205749] LOG:  database system was shut down at 2020-11-13 11:37:34 EST
2020-11-13 11:39:38.388 EST [205747] LOG:  database system is ready to accept connections
2020-11-13 11:39:45.750 EST [205756] FATAL:  database "postgres" does not exist