Re: yum update for postgresql rpms

Hi,

On Thu, 2021-02-18 at 16:23 +0000, Haas, Scott wrote:
> RHEL 7.9
> PostgreSQL 12 (12.5.1 to 12.6.1)
>
> I am updating RPMs for postgres and was interested to know whether
> this is indeed expected behavior for the rpm update:
>
> When the "yum update" is executed, postgresql rpms are updated.  It
> looks at that point, postgresql (postmaster) processes automatically
> restart.  In the procedure I was building, I figured I'd need to
> stop/start postgres (systemctl stop postgresql-12, systemctl start
> postgresql-12), but that doesn't look to be necessary.
>
> I don't recall this automatic postmaster restart occurring a few
> weeks ago when I went from 12.4.1 to 12.5.1 - perhaps it did, but I
> just stopped/re-started postgres unnecessarily.

That is the behaviour since 15 years :)

Regards,
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Devrim Gündüz
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