After updating to the latest version of Discourse we now have a strange issue with ngix posting error 502. Some users get Error 502 when posting, some don’t. Some profiles get 502, some don’t. CPU usage is around 10 to 25%, RAM usage is about 20% as well. I tried disabling our 5 plugins, same res…

You can check the postgres version at /var/discourse/shared/standalone/postgres_data/PG_VERSION – If you did a command line upgrade, it’s possible that it did the upgrade and you didn’t notice (but you’d have to have run the rebuild twice). If you upgraded from the web interface, you should probably…

502 Bad Gateway after updating to latest version

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) April 29, 2025, 7:39pm 10

Did you follow the advice in PostgreSQL 15 update? You might also vaccuum the database.

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502 Bad Gateway after updating to latest version

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