Hi! Each time I launch /launcher rebuild app I get the following message (even if I launch it again) : UPGRADE OF POSTGRES COMPLETE Old 9.5 database is stored at /shared/postgres_data_old To complete the upgrade, rebuild again using: ./launcher rebuild app What information do you need to help me? …

Temporarily, I used the templates/postgres.9.5.template.yml template to avoid downtime. The app is running again, but I’d like to finish the update. When I do a cleanup I get the following message : Old PostgreSQL backup data cluster detected taking up 1.2G detected. Would you like to remove it? (Y…

Sounds like a question for @tgxworld , but I am guessing that it failed due to lack of space but somehow didn’t catch that the upgrade had failed. How much space do you have? And how big is your database?

Can you provide me with the full log generated during the rebuild? Thank you!

I’ve been having the same problem for many months now and I can’t upgrade my installation. It loops and never succeeds. One problem during the rebuild app is this: mv: cannot move '/shared/postgres_data' to '/shared/postgres_data_old': Device or resource busy Entering in the Docker the postgres v…

Is your shared directory some sort of network mount?

No, but I’ve managed to do it finally! The two mv commands in templates/postgres.template.yml are not checked for goodness. The script always says UPGRADE OF POSTGRES COMPLETE which is not true when the move is in error. I removed the commands, then moved the directories by hand after entering in …

I hit this problem during the latest upgrade from PotsgreSQL 13 to 15. In our deployment, our/shared/postgres_data directory is mounted on a faster NVMe storage device, so moving it failed with a Device or resource busy error message. We fixed this by patching the postgres template as such: diff …

I think this might be related: FIX: improve postgres upgrade reliability by jcharaoui · Pull Request #989 · discourse/discourse_docker · GitHub

[afbeelding] pfaffman: FIX: improve postgres upgrade reliability by jcharaoui · Pull Request #989 · discourse/discourse_docker · GitHub The PR has been merged :+1:

Infinite loop during postgres upgrade

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tgxworld (Alan Tan) 11 augustus 2025 om 06:55 10

The PR has been merged

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Infinite loop during postgres upgrade

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