Re: two issues with v12 beta3

Hi Justin,

On Thu, 2019-08-22 at 07:46 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> One of our customers is shutting down, so I took the opportunity to upgrade
> their DB to v12b3.
>
> I found 2 issues:
>
> The initscript and refuses to start for beta versions.
> > [pryzbyj@telsasoft ~]$ sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-12 start
> >
> > An old version of the database format was found.
> > You need to upgrade the data format before using PostgreSQL.
> > See (Your System's documentation directory)/postgresql-12beta2/README.rpm-
> > dist for more information.
>
> Due to:
> ++ cat /var/lib/pgsql/12/data/PG_VERSION
> + '[' x12 '!=' x12beta2 ']'
>
> # PGMAJORVERSION is major version, e.g., 10 (this should match PG_VERSION)
> PGMAJORVERSION=`echo "$PGVERSION" | sed 's/^\([0-9]*\)\.[0-9]*$/\1/'`
>
> I guess it should s/beta[0-9]*$//, or (I suggested in the past):
> PGMAJORVERSION=${PGVERSION%%.*}

Fixed. Thanks for the report.

>
> Also, for centos6, v12b2 is available but not 12b3??

*sigh* .  It was an issue with CentOS 6 sync scripts. Sorry.

So, I used this chance to rebuild beta3 with the fix above. They will be
available in next 30 mins.

Thanks again.

Regards,


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