Patrick Boake escribió:
> You are somewhat correct Tom,
>
> I got it to work after finding out my system was unable to resolve
> localhost.
>
> Once it was able to do that the upgrade went through.
>
> I'm off to find the package maintainer who assumes localhost resolves
> successfully.
Postgres itself assumes localhost resolves. Why would you make that
fail?
Since we have seen this kind of failure reported many times, I wonder if
it'd make sense to check specifically for inability to resolve localhost,
if only to save troubleshooters' time.
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