On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 03:38:26PM +0100, Alexander Fortin wrote:
> Seems that the problem resides in the pg_ctl packaged with Ubuntu
> 10.04, the only way we found to fix this was to recompile Postgresql
> 8.4.9 from sources using the following patch, than instruct
> pg_upgrade (9.1.2) to use the hand compiled pg_ctl instead of the
> original one (a raw symlink did the job).
> 
> Here's the patch, maybe someone could need it.
> 
> 
> *** pg_ctl.c.orig       2011-12-27 14:52:27.000000000 +0000
> --- pg_ctl.c    2011-12-27 15:20:25.000000000 +0000
> ***************
> *** 503,509 ****
>          * probably timeout first
>          */
>         snprintf(connstr, sizeof(connstr),
> !                        "dbname=postgres port=%s
> connect_timeout=5", portstr);
> 
>         for (i = 0; i < wait_seconds; i++)
>         {
> --- 503,509 ----
>          * probably timeout first
>          */
>         snprintf(connstr, sizeof(connstr),
> !                        "dbname=postgres port=%s connect_timeout=5
> host=localhost", portstr);
> 
>         for (i = 0; i < wait_seconds; i++)
>         {

Sorry for the late reply.  Did you have a PGHOST variable set to
something?  That might have caused the problem.  Your change basically
forces it to do a tcp connection to the local database --- the default
is to do a unix-domain socket/local connection to the database.

Glad you finally got it working.

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  Bruce Momjian  <br...@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us
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