I have a little forum, themooster.net , based on Discourse that I had not upgraded in a couple of months. I clicked “Update” in the “Admin” recommendation to upgrade, and it said I had to do the upgrade at the shell prompt instead, and gave me three lines to run: cd /var/discourse git pull …

Ah. Sorry I didn’t think to tell you what I told that guy! [image] ThePythonicCow: It Worked !! :tada: Great! So glad you got it! [image] ThePythonicCow: So the lesson for the day: If the “ ./launcher rebuild app ” command fails to provide a working site, try it again. Yeah. That mi…

I’ll look at your PostgreSQL 13 link now - thanks. Is there someway I should have, could have, known of this complication, without being a full time admin constantly following the activity of the key technologies (PostgreSQL, Ruby, Linux, …) behind Discourse? If so, then could the 3 lines of instr…

I will try reading the PostgreSQL 13 update page you kindly linked a couple more times. But, on first couple readings … I am semi-totally lost. I have no idea which sections of that page might apply to my situation (if any). For example, that PostgreSQL 13 update page is (reasonably enough, I sup…

Aha - my file: /var/discourse/shared/standalone/postgres_data_old/PG_VERSION has the value “10”. So the above PostgreSQL 13 link, to the extent that it applies to a 12 ==> 13 upgrade, is NOT necessarily relevant, so far as I know (which is not far at all.) I am having a really bad feeling about…

This comment, which I randomly stumbled on just how: https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-manually-update-discourse-and-docker-image-to-latest/23325/238?u=thepythoniccow “You should rebuild again. My guess is that you ignored a message about the postgres upgrade.” Got me thinking that I should…

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Upgrade failed: PostgreSQL version 13 ... not compatible with ... version 10.12

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