Thread: Automatic restart while upgrade
Hello, I discovered that while upgrading PostgreSQL binaries through 'yum update', with PGDG RPMs, the service is automatically restarted. ISTM that this was not the case before 9.2. May you confirm that this is a new behaviour appearing in 9.2? Is it intended, and is there a way to prevent the automatic restart? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Stéphane Schildknecht http://loxodata.com
stephane.schildknecht@postgres.fr writes:
> I discovered that while upgrading PostgreSQL binaries through 'yum
> update', with PGDG RPMs, the service is automatically restarted.
> ISTM that this was not the case before 9.2.
I dunno whether Devrim's packages acted that way before 9.2, but
this is standard behavior for all services in Red Hat environments,
and always has been. Otherwise an intended security patch, for
instance, might not be activated till long past when the admin
thought he'd installed it.
regards, tom lane
On 13/04/13 02:08, Tom Lane wrote:
As far as I can recall: that is standard yum behaviour for all packages updated, rather than installed, for over 10 years, I first stared using Red Hat, now Fedora, in about 2001.stephane.schildknecht@postgres.fr writes:I discovered that while upgrading PostgreSQL binaries through 'yum update', with PGDG RPMs, the service is automatically restarted.ISTM that this was not the case before 9.2.I dunno whether Devrim's packages acted that way before 9.2, but this is standard behavior for all services in Red Hat environments, and always has been. Otherwise an intended security patch, for instance, might not be activated till long past when the admin thought he'd installed it. regards, tom lane
Cheers,
Gavin