Bug #28385
closed
When upgrading to pg10 candlepin migration fails if --upgrade is forgotten
Description
It seems that if foreman-installer is ran without --upgrade, the pg migration won't happen correctly or candlepin migration is omitted. Later when ran with --upgrade, candlepin db will fails since it's DB is missing tables, probably a clean pg 10 db. With Ewoud's help I was able to restore pg9 and rerun the installer with --upgrade. That now prints error about pg10 migration but seems to fix the error state.
I had to rever steps in 30-upgrade, removing syspaths packes so I could install postgres-server. Then started the old version and rerun the installer --upgrade.
However it seems as pretty bad experience for users who don't know about --upgrade. I don't recall running installer without it, but I'm not the only admin of this instance. So if this is the reproducer, I'm afraid many users will hit it.
Updated by Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden almost 4 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
We've dropped --upgrade in the most recent versions and it should just do the right thing.