# PostgreSQL 15 update

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/postgresql-15-update/349515
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [January 29, 2025, 7:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/postgresql-15-update/349515 "2025-01-29T07:20:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 61

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![xFocus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/xfocus/32/463960_2.png) [@xFocus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xFocus)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2025, 4:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/postgresql-15-update/349515/61 "2025-02-02T04:26:49Z")

</div>

tried to get around with this file, but failed

```plaintext
mv /shared/postgres_run/.s.PGSQL.5432 /shared/postgres_run/.s.PGSQL.5432.2025Feb1BackUp

root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc3-01-app:/var/www/discourse# ls -al /shared/postgres_run/.s.PGSQL.5432*
srwxrwxrwx 1 postgres postgres 0 Feb 2 03:24 /shared/postgres_run/.s.PGSQL.5432.2025Feb1BackUp
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 62 Feb 2 03:24 /shared/postgres_run/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock

```

then rebuild still failing, `The source cluster was not shut down cleanly.`  
@mwaniki

```plaintext
Stopping PostgreSQL 13 database server: main.
Stopping PostgreSQL 15 database server: main.
Performing Consistency Checks
-----------------------------
Checking cluster versions ok

The source cluster was not shut down cleanly.
Failure, exiting
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
UPGRADE OF POSTGRES FAILED

Please visit https://meta.discourse.org/t/postgresql-15-update/349515 for support.

You can run ./launcher start app to restart your app in the meanwhile

FAILED
--------------------
Pups::ExecError: if [-f /root/install_postgres]; then
  /root/install_postgres && rm -f /root/install_postgres
elif [-e /shared/postgres_run/.s.PGSQL.5432]; then
  socat /dev/null UNIX-CONNECT:/shared/postgres_run/.s.PGSQL.5432 || exit 0 && echo postgres already running stop container ; exit 1
fi
 failed with return #<Process::Status: pid 18 exit 1>
Location of failure: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.3.0/gems/pups-1.2.1/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:132:in `spawn'
exec failed with the params {"tag"=>"db", "cmd"=>"if [-f /root/install_postgres]; then\n /root/install_postgres && rm -f /root/install_postgres\nelif [-e /shared/postgres_run/.s.PGSQL.5432]; then\n socat /dev/null UNIX-CONNECT:/shared/postgres_run/.s.PGSQL.5432 || exit 0 && echo postgres already running stop container ; exit 1\nfi\n"}
bootstrap failed with exit code 1
**FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one.
./discourse-doctor may help diagnose the problem.
931142f4cf49942fb3faf0676818c6395376c9fb6c76008d82037b0b76ae7111

```

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/postgresql-15-update/349515)._