April 09, 2020
Updating PostgreSQL on Mac.
TLDR
brew upgrade postgresql
brew postgresql-upgrade-databaseThe Story
After updating, PostgreSQL, I got this following in error.
$ psql
psql: error: could not connect to server: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?Once in a while, I get this error, but I always google it try to remove postmaster.pid, reinstall postgres, removing that folder, and so on.
And spent couple of hours tackling, and then magically with the combination of that and this command I could make my server run again.
So I finally decided to see the logs, and check what was actually happening.
And understood it was a very simple problem:
$ tail /usr/local/var/log/postgres.log
2020-04-09 13:47:48.385 JST [69411] FATAL: database files are incompatible with server
2020-04-09 13:47:48.385 JST [69411] DETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version11, which is not compatible with this version 12.2.The data directory was not compatible with the older version.
And after 1 minute of googling I found that the way to migrate the database to the newer version was kindly written in the brew info
$ brew info postgresql
postgresql: stable 12.2 (bottled), HEAD
Object-relational database system
https://www.postgresql.org/
/usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/12.2 (3,218 files, 37.3MB) *
Poured from bottle on 2020-04-09 at 13:47:38
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/postgresql.rb
==> Dependencies
Build: pkg-config ✔
Required: icu4c ✔, krb5 ✔, openssl@1.1 ✔, readline ✔
==> Options
--HEAD
Install HEAD version
==> Caveats
To migrate existing data from a previous major version of PostgreSQL run: brew postgresql-upgrade-database
To have launchd start postgresql now and restart at login:
brew services start postgresql
Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run:
pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start
==> Analytics
install: 103,855 (30 days), 264,272 (90 days), 1,020,149 (365 days)
install-on-request: 99,081 (30 days), 248,397 (90 days), 945,833 (365 days)
build-error: 0 (30 days)Just follow the command.
brew postgresql-upgrade-databaseAnd normally you are good to go 😉
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Written by...
Kazushi Kawamura
Software Engineer based in Tokyo.