On Saturday 29 Jul 2017 10:59:39 Mick wrote: > It seems this is one of these things I keep forgetting how to perform > correctly, despite taking notes and reading the documentation. I thought I > had upgraded postgresql from 9.5.7 to 9.6.3-r1 a couple of weeks ago. > > Today depclean asked me to remove 9.5.7 and after a moment's hesitation I > went along with it. To my surprise I got this at the end of it: > > [snip...] > <<< dir /usr/include/postgresql-9.5/server/catalog > <<< dir /usr/include/postgresql-9.5/server/bootstrap > <<< dir /usr/include/postgresql-9.5/server/access > <<< dir /usr/include/postgresql-9.5/server > <<< dir /usr/include/postgresql-9.5/libpq > <<< dir /usr/include/postgresql-9.5/internal/libpq > <<< dir /usr/include/postgresql-9.5/internal > <<< dir /usr/include/postgresql-9.5/informix/esql > <<< dir /usr/include/postgresql-9.5/informix > <<< dir /usr/include/postgresql-9.5 > --- !empty dir /usr/include > --- !empty dir /usr/bin > --- !empty dir /usr > --- !empty dir /etc/postgresql-9.5 > --- !empty dir /etc/pam.d > --- !empty dir /etc/init.d > --- !empty dir /etc/conf.d > --- !empty dir /etc > Unsetting 9.5 as default...done. > Setting 9.6 as the default...ln: failed to create symbolic link > '/usr/include/libpq-fe.h': File exists > !!! Error: Unable to create link! postgresql-9.6/libpq-fe.h -> > /usr/include/libpq-fe.h > exiting > > >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... > > Packages installed: 1321 > Packages in world: 216 > Packages in system: 44 > Required packages: 1321 > Number removed: 1 > > > Looking at /usr/include/ I see this: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jul 16 13:56 postgres_ext.h -> > postgresql-9.5/postgres_ext.h > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jul 29 10:34 postgresql -> postgresql-9.6 > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jul 16 13:55 postgresql-9.6 > > Although the old /usr/include/postgresql-9.5 directory and file > postgres_ext.h have been removed, the symlink is still pointint to the old > file, rather than having been replaced with a symlink to > /usr/include/postgresql-9.6/postgres_ext.h: > > $ ls -la /usr/include/postgresql-9.6/postgres_ext.h > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2151 Jul 16 13:54 > /usr/include/postgresql-9.6/postgres_ext.h > > > I'm trying to understand why this might have happened. Which process/action > is responsible for setting this symlink? > > Also, the entry run by depclean above also confused me: > > Unsetting 9.5 as default...done. > Setting 9.6 as the default... > > How is the default version of postgresql being set in a system? What > specific actions do these two entries entail? I thought with openrc at > least it is a matter of setting up the latest postgresql version to start > up in rc-update. > > I've replaced the symlink with the live postgresql manually for now - I hope > I haven't borked the database ...
Oops! There are more broken links: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jul 16 13:56 pg_config_ext.h -> postgresql-9.5/pg_config_ext.h lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jul 16 13:56 pg_config_manual.h -> postgresql-9.5/pg_config_manual.h ... lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jul 16 13:56 postgres_ext.h -> postgresql-9.5/postgres_ext.h lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jul 29 10:34 postgresql -> postgresql-9.6 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jul 16 13:55 postgresql-9.6 -- Regards, Mick
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