[ovirt-users] Re: Is PostgreSQL 9.5 required now as of oVirt 4.2?

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 2:58 AM, Lacey Powers <lacey.leanne(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a setup of oVirt on 4.1 that has been working brilliantly for > over a year, serving the production workloads at my dayjob without > complaint. > > Originally, I had set it up with a custom PostgreSQL version, 9.6, from > the PGDG repositories, since the suggested 9.2 was already quite old, > and it allowed me to keep consistent versions of PostgreSQL across all > the infrastructure I have. > > Now that I am trying to upgrade to oVirt 4.2, when I run engine-setup > per the directions in the release notes documentation, engine-setup > insists on PostgreSQL 9.5 from Software Collections, comparing the > postgresql versions and then aborting. > > I don't see a way to tell it that I have a different running version of > PostgreSQL that's greater than 9.5 already. > > Does this mean that no other versions than 9.5 are supported, and I need > to downgrade and use the Software Collections version exclusively? > > Or is there a custom setting that I am missing that will enable me to > continue using the 9.6 install I already have. > > Thank you for your time. It's not supported out-of-the-box, but a simple workaround exists: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2018-March/087573.html We should probably document this somewhere more approachable... Best regards,