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

[Lacey Powers]

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.

Best,

Lacey