Re: [gentoo-user] Postgresql upgrade

[Alan McKinnon]

On 29/07/2017 14:27, Mick wrote:
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> On 29 July 2017 at 12:19, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com
> <mailto:michaelkintzios@×××××.com>> wrote:
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>
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>     On 29 July 2017 at 12:03, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
>     <mailto:alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>> wrote:
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>         Don't use kmail
>
>         Seriously, why are putting up with the pain that POS is causing you?
>         You've been posting about serious kmail and akonadi issues for
>         about 4
>         years now if memory serves, and it has never gotten better. It
>         probably
>         never will :-)
>
>     It must be well more than 4 years.  What can I say, you are right, I
>     must be glutton for punishment. LOL!
>
>     TBH, it has been serving me fine for quite a few years now, although
>     the migration to akonadi was a painful affair by all accounts.  This
>     was originally caused by me using POP3 and a tonne of filters.  I
>     moved to IMAP4 and few filters and it all worked relatively
>     painlessly since.
>
>     This however must be a postgresql related error, as it worked fine
>     before I removed version 9.5.  Any idea what this "Invalid database
>     object during initial database connection" might be and how to
>     recover from it?
>
>
> Hmm, even more symlinks have been broken,  This time I spotted
> /usr/bin/psql pointing to a non-existent
> ../lib64/postgresql-9.5/bin/psql.  I came across it when I tried to
> connect to the database manually and couldn't run psql, but could run
> psql96.  I'm still not sure if I did something wrong this time during
> the upgrade and migration and what it might have been, of if something
> else is amiss and merits a bug report.
>
> akonadi is still uncooperative.  :-(
>
> It must be related to whatever it runs to start postgres.

Ah wait. Ignore my last mail from 1 minute ago. I mis-read what you were
saying. Sorry for the noise



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Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com