FW: v8.2.6->8.2.7 upgrade renamed /var/lib/pgsql

Sorry for the HTML posting previously.

I've already renamed the directories and the database is up and running.

I was just wondering if anyone else had this issue and what the reason, if known, for the renaming. I completely understand this type of behavior when doing a major version upgrade, but not a minor version patch like this.

Thanks,

Gord

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From: Hyatt, Gordon
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:28 AM
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: v8.2.6->8.2.7 upgrade renamed /var/lib/pgsql

To all,

I just applied the v8.2.7 upgrade (from v8.2.6) on and FC8 server via yum.  The upgrade went OK, but the /var/lib/pgsql directory (with the existing data) was renamed to /var/lib/pgsql.old and a new (and empty) /var/lib/pgsql directory was created.

Does anyone know why this would have happened? 

The particular machine is an FC8, dual core AMD DELL with 4GB RAM running the x86_64 pg binaries.

I applied the same update (v8.2.6->8.2.7) to an FC7 Pentium4 box running the 32-bit pg binaries and did not have to rename the /var/lib/pgsql directories.

Has anyone else run into this?

Thanks, in advance,

Gord