[rhn-users] Cannot update postgresql [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Paul Wayper]

On 25/01/10 09:35, Jensen, John T wrote:
> I have a Redhat EL 5.4 server.  There is a postgresql update waiting but I can't apply it - have tried everything I can think of.  I can't find any way to get this libpq.so there.
>
> Anyone got any thoughts?  Google shows a number of times of this sort of thing happening but I haven't been able to get any of the suggestions to work.
>    

I've generally found I solve these problems by:
1) removing the dependent package (apr-util) - doing an rpm -ev --nodeps 
is fine here because you're just about to reinstall it.
2) update the postgresql-libs package.
3) reinstall the apr-util package.

You may also like to do a full dump of your databases, because this 
might be one of those "we've just broken backward compatibility and 
don't do in-place upgrades" updates of PostgreSQL that we all find so 
amusing to deal with post facto.

Have fun,

Paul

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Paul Wayper - Gateway Engineer - Unisys
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