libpq5 error

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#1Paul Brindusa
paulbrindusa88@gmail.com

Good afternoon,

I have got a rocky 9.4 VM running psql (PostgreSQL) 15.8 version and
recently unable to patc h the host due to a version mismatch of libpq5
package.

The updates get stuck when trying to install the following packages:

libpq5 x86_64
17.0-42PGDG.rhel9
pgdg-common 352 k
pgdg-redhat-repo noarch
42.0-46PGDG
pgdg-common 12 k

If I disable the pg repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d they are omitted. Is
there a fix to this issue?

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

Kind regards,
Paul

#2Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
In reply to: Paul Brindusa (#1)
Re: libpq5 error

On 10/7/24 06:45, Paul Brindusa wrote:

Good afternoon,

I have got a rocky 9.4 VM running psql (PostgreSQL) 15.8  version and
recently unable to patc h the host due to a version mismatch of libpq5
package.

The above is somewhat confusing to me. You say that Postgres is running
in a VM, but then say you are patching the host. To me that implies
patching the host machine that the VM is being run on. Please explain
this is more detail.

The updates get stuck when trying to install the following packages:

Is this an update to an existing install that came from the PGDG repo?

What is the complete error message you get?

 libpq5                                                  x86_64
                          17.0-42PGDG.rhel9
             pgdg-common                                   352 k
pgdg-redhat-repo                                        noarch
                        42.0-46PGDG
           pgdg-common                                    12 k

If I disable the pg repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d they are omitted. Is
there a fix to this issue?

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

Kind regards,
Paul

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#3Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
In reply to: Paul Brindusa (#1)
Re: libpq5 error

On 10/7/24 08:23, Paul Brindusa wrote:

Please reply to list also.
Ccing list.

Hi Adrian,

Thank you for your quick response,

I'm guessing(because I don't use RH and variants) that the below is
related to:

https://yum.postgresql.org/news/rocky-9-8-llvm-repo-is-available/

In particular this part:

"Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux, which lags slightly behind RHEL, is also
significantly affected by this breakage, blocking PostgreSQL minor
updates. This is the problem that needs to be solved."

Hopefully, someone who is more knowledge about this can confirm.

Yes, the postgres(version 15.8) instance is running on a rocky 9.4 VM
which when trying to patch.
When running dnf update the below 2 packages get pushed through the
system updates:

pgdg-redhat-repo                                        noarch
                        42.0-46PGDG
           pgdg-common                                    12 k
libpq5                                                  x86_64
                        17.0-42PGDG.rhel9
              pgdg-common                                   352 k

And these packages stop the update of the host with the following error:

Unknown Error occurred: Transaction test error:\n file
/usr/share/pgsql/postgres.bki from install of
libpq5-17.0-42PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
postgresql-server-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64\n file
/usr/share/pgsql/system_constraints.sql from install of
libpq5-17.0-42PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
postgresql-server-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64\n.

Apologies for the bad description in the initial message but I did not
find the error that was getting.
Hope this makes more sense.

Kind Regards,
Paul

On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 4:10 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
<mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>> wrote:

On 10/7/24 06:45, Paul Brindusa wrote:

Good afternoon,

I have got a rocky 9.4 VM running psql (PostgreSQL) 15.8  version

and

recently unable to patc h the host due to a version mismatch of

libpq5

package.

The above is somewhat confusing to me. You say that Postgres is running
in a VM, but then say you are patching the host. To me that implies
patching the host machine that the VM is being run on. Please explain
this is more detail.

The updates get stuck when trying to install the following packages:

Is this an update to an existing install that came from the PGDG repo?

What is the complete error message you get?

   libpq5                                                  x86_64
                            17.0-42PGDG.rhel9
               pgdg-common                                   352 k
pgdg-redhat-repo                                        noarch
                          42.0-46PGDG
             pgdg-common                                    12 k

If I disable the pg repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d they are

omitted. Is

there a fix to this issue?

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

Kind regards,
Paul

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#4Devrim GÜNDÜZ
devrim@gunduz.org
In reply to: Paul Brindusa (#1)
Re: libpq5 error

Hi,

On Mon, 2024-10-07 at 14:45 +0100, Paul Brindusa wrote:

I have got a rocky 9.4 VM running psql (PostgreSQL) 15.8  version and
recently unable to patc h the host due to a version mismatch of libpq5
package.

The updates get stuck when trying to install the following packages:

 libpq5                                                  x86_64
                      17.0-42PGDG.rhel9
     pgdg-common                                   352 k

Packager speaking: It means libpq5 is built using PostgreSQL 17.0 and it
is backwards compatible with PostgreSQL 15. So it is ok to install it.

Regards,
--
Devrim Gündüz
Open Source Solution Architect, PostgreSQL Major Contributor
Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR

#5Paul Brindusa
paulbrindusa88@gmail.com
In reply to: Devrim GÜNDÜZ (#4)
Re: libpq5 error

Good morning,

Really appreciate the assistance with this.
I will apply the changes later on today.

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 8:44 AM Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org> wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, 2024-10-07 at 14:45 +0100, Paul Brindusa wrote:

I have got a rocky 9.4 VM running psql (PostgreSQL) 15.8 version and
recently unable to patc h the host due to a version mismatch of libpq5
package.

The updates get stuck when trying to install the following packages:

libpq5 x86_64
17.0-42PGDG.rhel9
pgdg-common 352 k

Packager speaking: It means libpq5 is built using PostgreSQL 17.0 and it
is backwards compatible with PostgreSQL 15. So it is ok to install it.

Regards,
--
Devrim Gündüz
Open Source Solution Architect, PostgreSQL Major Contributor
Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR

--
Kind Regards,
Paul Brindusa
paulbrindusa88@gmail.com

#6Devrim GÜNDÜZ
devrim@gunduz.org
In reply to: Adrian Klaver (#3)
Re: libpq5 error

Hi,

On Mon, 2024-10-07 at 08:44 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:

Unknown Error occurred: Transaction test error:\n file
/usr/share/pgsql/postgres.bki from install of
libpq5-17.0-42PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
postgresql-server-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64\n file
/usr/share/pgsql/system_constraints.sql from install of
libpq5-17.0-42PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
postgresql-server-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64\n.

Ah ok. So basically it means PostgreSQL is installed from Red Hat
packages, not PGDG. I would suggest you either not to use PGDG repos at
all for consistency, or switch to PGDG repo and use our packages as a
whole.

...or you can edit /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo file, and add

exclude=libpq5

under the [pgdg-common] section so that dnf will ignore that.

Regards,

--
Devrim Gündüz
Open Source Solution Architect, PostgreSQL Major Contributor
Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR

#7Paul Brindusa
paulbrindusa88@gmail.com
In reply to: Devrim GÜNDÜZ (#6)
Re: libpq5 error

Good morning Devrim,

Is libpq5 an important component that needs the upgrade?
I am wanting to try after Adrian's suggestion yesterday to see if I can
update the repo file first of all since it came with the rest of the
updates.

If that does not solve it, I would consider disabling the package.

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 8:48 AM Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org> wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, 2024-10-07 at 08:44 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:

Unknown Error occurred: Transaction test error:\n file
/usr/share/pgsql/postgres.bki from install of
libpq5-17.0-42PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
postgresql-server-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64\n file
/usr/share/pgsql/system_constraints.sql from install of
libpq5-17.0-42PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
postgresql-server-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64\n.

Ah ok. So basically it means PostgreSQL is installed from Red Hat
packages, not PGDG. I would suggest you either not to use PGDG repos at
all for consistency, or switch to PGDG repo and use our packages as a
whole.

...or you can edit /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo file, and add

exclude=libpq5

under the [pgdg-common] section so that dnf will ignore that.

Regards,

--
Devrim Gündüz
Open Source Solution Architect, PostgreSQL Major Contributor
Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR

--
Kind Regards,
Paul Brindusa
paulbrindusa88@gmail.com

#8Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
In reply to: Paul Brindusa (#7)
Re: libpq5 error

On 10/8/24 01:01, Paul Brindusa wrote:

 Good morning Devrim,

Is libpq5 an important component that needs the upgrade?

From here:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq.html

"libpq is the C application programmer's interface to PostgreSQL. libpq
is a set of library functions that allow client programs to pass queries
to the PostgreSQL backend server and to receive the results of these
queries.

libpq is also the underlying engine for several other PostgreSQL
application interfaces, including those written for C++, Perl, Python,
Tcl and ECPG. So some aspects of libpq's behavior will be important to
you if you use one of those packages. In particular, Section 32.15,
Section 32.16 and Section 32.19 describe behavior that is visible to the
user of any application that uses libpq."

To me that is, yes it is important.

I am wanting to try after Adrian's suggestion yesterday to see if I can
update the repo file first of all since it came with the rest of the
updates.

If that does not solve it, I would consider disabling the package.

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 8:48 AM Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org
<mailto:devrim@gunduz.org>> wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, 2024-10-07 at 08:44 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:

Unknown Error occurred: Transaction test error:\n file
/usr/share/pgsql/postgres.bki from install of
libpq5-17.0-42PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
postgresql-server-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64\n

file

/usr/share/pgsql/system_constraints.sql from install of
libpq5-17.0-42PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
postgresql-server-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64\n.

Ah ok. So basically it means PostgreSQL is installed from Red Hat
packages, not PGDG. I would suggest you either not to use PGDG repos at
all for consistency, or switch to PGDG repo and use our packages as a
whole.

...or you can edit /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo file, and add

exclude=libpq5

under the [pgdg-common] section so that dnf will ignore that.

Regards,

--
Devrim Gündüz
Open Source Solution Architect, PostgreSQL Major Contributor
Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR

--
Kind Regards,
Paul Brindusa
paulbrindusa88@gmail.com <mailto:paulbrindusa88@gmail.com>

--
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com

#9Paul Brindusa
paulbrindusa88@gmail.com
In reply to: Adrian Klaver (#8)
Re: libpq5 error

Hi guys,

I've just retried patching the host as we speak with no luck, I am getting
the exact same thing.
Following Devrim's guidance i've manually upgraded the repo file that came
down via dnf and still getting the mismatch error:

Error: Transaction test error:
file /usr/share/pgsql/postgres.bki from install of
libpq5-17.0-42PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
postgresql-server-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64
file /usr/share/pgsql/system_constraints.sql from install of
libpq5-17.0-42PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
postgresql-server-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64

Any ideas?

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 4:06 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
wrote:

On 10/8/24 01:01, Paul Brindusa wrote:

Good morning Devrim,

Is libpq5 an important component that needs the upgrade?

From here:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq.html

"libpq is the C application programmer's interface to PostgreSQL. libpq
is a set of library functions that allow client programs to pass queries
to the PostgreSQL backend server and to receive the results of these
queries.

libpq is also the underlying engine for several other PostgreSQL
application interfaces, including those written for C++, Perl, Python,
Tcl and ECPG. So some aspects of libpq's behavior will be important to
you if you use one of those packages. In particular, Section 32.15,
Section 32.16 and Section 32.19 describe behavior that is visible to the
user of any application that uses libpq."

To me that is, yes it is important.

I am wanting to try after Adrian's suggestion yesterday to see if I can
update the repo file first of all since it came with the rest of the
updates.

If that does not solve it, I would consider disabling the package.

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 8:48 AM Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org
<mailto:devrim@gunduz.org>> wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, 2024-10-07 at 08:44 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote:

Unknown Error occurred: Transaction test error:\n file
/usr/share/pgsql/postgres.bki from install of
libpq5-17.0-42PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
postgresql-server-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64\n

file

/usr/share/pgsql/system_constraints.sql from install of
libpq5-17.0-42PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
postgresql-server-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64\n.

Ah ok. So basically it means PostgreSQL is installed from Red Hat
packages, not PGDG. I would suggest you either not to use PGDG repos

at

all for consistency, or switch to PGDG repo and use our packages as a
whole.

...or you can edit /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-redhat-all.repo file, and

add

exclude=libpq5

under the [pgdg-common] section so that dnf will ignore that.

Regards,

--
Devrim Gündüz
Open Source Solution Architect, PostgreSQL Major Contributor
Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR

--
Kind Regards,
Paul Brindusa
paulbrindusa88@gmail.com <mailto:paulbrindusa88@gmail.com>

--
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com

--
Kind Regards,
Paul Brindusa
paulbrindusa88@gmail.com

#10Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
In reply to: Paul Brindusa (#9)
Re: libpq5 error

On 10/8/24 08:23, Paul Brindusa wrote:

Hi guys,

I've just retried patching the host as we speak with no luck, I am
getting the exact same thing.
Following Devrim's guidance i've manually upgraded the repo file that
came down via dnf  and still getting the mismatch error:

Error: Transaction test error:
  file /usr/share/pgsql/postgres.bki from install of
libpq5-17.0-42PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
postgresql-server-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64
  file /usr/share/pgsql/system_constraints.sql from install of
libpq5-17.0-42PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
postgresql-server-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64

Any ideas?

Yes show us the exact changes you made, including the file names of the
files changed.

--
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com

#11Paul Brindusa
paulbrindusa88@gmail.com
In reply to: Adrian Klaver (#10)
Re: libpq5 error

I just ran from the host dnf update -y pgdg-redhat-repo.
And retried dnf update -y libpq5 which comes back again with:

file /usr/share/pgsql/postgres.bki from install of
libpq5-17.0-42PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
postgresql-server-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64
file /usr/share/pgsql/system_constraints.sql from install of
libpq5-17.0-42PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
postgresql-server-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 4:53 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
wrote:

On 10/8/24 08:23, Paul Brindusa wrote:

Hi guys,

I've just retried patching the host as we speak with no luck, I am
getting the exact same thing.
Following Devrim's guidance i've manually upgraded the repo file that
came down via dnf and still getting the mismatch error:

Error: Transaction test error:
file /usr/share/pgsql/postgres.bki from install of
libpq5-17.0-42PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
postgresql-server-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64
file /usr/share/pgsql/system_constraints.sql from install of
libpq5-17.0-42PGDG.rhel9.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
postgresql-server-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64

Any ideas?

Yes show us the exact changes you made, including the file names of the
files changed.

--
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com

--
Kind Regards,
Paul Brindusa
paulbrindusa88@gmail.com

#12Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
In reply to: Paul Brindusa (#11)
Re: libpq5 error

On 10/8/24 08:56, Paul Brindusa wrote:

I just ran from the host dnf update -y pgdg-redhat-repo.
And retried dnf update -y libpq5  which comes back again with:

That is not what Devrin suggested, go back and read:

/messages/by-id/0a805069f207406b6c68a023bda5a9bbcda1db16.camel@gunduz.org

--
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adrian.klaver@aklaver.com

#13Paul Brindusa
paulbrindusa88@gmail.com
In reply to: Adrian Klaver (#12)
Re: libpq5 error

Right, I was thinking that I would be able to get away with updating the
repo file and fixing the issue that way.
I've just checked the packages with dnf whatprovides postrgres and indeed
everything is coming down from Red Hat repos:

postgresql-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64 : PostgreSQL client
programs
Repo : @System

postgresql-15.8-1.module+el9.4.0+25512+c6b50a48.x86_64 : PostgreSQL client
programs
Repo : appstream

If I were to move in getting the packages just from pgdg we need just the
[pgdg-common] block?

On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 5:01 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
wrote:

On 10/8/24 08:56, Paul Brindusa wrote:

I just ran from the host dnf update -y pgdg-redhat-repo.
And retried dnf update -y libpq5 which comes back again with:

That is not what Devrin suggested, go back and read:

/messages/by-id/0a805069f207406b6c68a023bda5a9bbcda1db16.camel@gunduz.org

--
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Kind Regards,
Paul Brindusa
paulbrindusa88@gmail.com