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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I think I ran into this issue too though I was doing a pg_upgrade from 9.6 to 11 at the same time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>The issue is since both ship and overlapping set of files, they can’t cleanly coexist.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>The below should work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Uninstall postgis25_11 package<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Install the postgis31_11 package<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Symlink the old names to the new libraries<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>ln -s /usr/pgsql-11/lib/postgis-3.so /usr/pgsql-11/lib/postgis-2.5.so<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>ln -s /usr/pgsql-11/lib/postgis_raster-3.so /usr/pgsql-11/lib/rtpostgis-2.5.so<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>#if you are not using these libraries, you can skip this step<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>ln -s /usr/pgsql-11/lib/postgis_topology-3.so /usr/pgsql-11/lib/postgis_topology-2.5.so<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>ln -s /usr/pgsql-11/lib/address_standardizer-3.so /usr/pgsql-11/lib/address_standardizer-2.5.so<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>ln -s /usr/pgsql-11/lib/address_standardizer-3.so /usr/pgsql-11/lib/address_standardizer.so<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>#On your databases<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>SELECT postgis_full_version();<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Should show something to the effect you have 2.5 scripts but are running postgis-3<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>SELECT postgis_extensions_upgrade();<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>SELECT postgis_extensions_update();<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>-- if not using raster, you can do this<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>DROP EXTENSION postgis_raster;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>#after you are done upgrading your dbs, you can drop the symlinks e.g.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>rm /usr/pgsql-11/lib/rtpostgis-2.5.so<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>rm /usr/pgsql-11/lib/postgis-2.5.so<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>rm /usr/pgsql-11/lib/postgis_topology-2.5.so<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Nikhil Shetty<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 24, 2022 1:48 PM<br><b>To:</b> PostGIS Development Discussion <postgis-devel@lists.osgeo.org>; postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [postgis-devel] Upgrade PostGIS from 2.5.4 to 3.1.2<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Team,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am looking for a way to upgrade postgis on postgresql 11 from 2.5.4 to 3.1.2<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am getting below error when doing though yum<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>Transaction check error:<br> file /usr/pgsql-11/share/extension/address_standardizer.control from install of postgis31_11-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package postgis25_11-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64<br> file /usr/pgsql-11/share/extension/address_standardizer.sql from install of postgis31_11-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package postgis25_11-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64<br> file /usr/pgsql-11/share/extension/address_standardizer_data_us.control from install of postgis31_11-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package postgis25_11-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64<br> file /usr/pgsql-11/share/extension/postgis.control from install of postgis31_11-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package postgis25_11-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64<br> file /usr/pgsql-11/share/extension/postgis_sfcgal.control from install of postgis31_11-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package postgis25_11-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64<br> file /usr/pgsql-11/share/extension/postgis_tiger_geocoder.control from install of postgis31_11-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package postgis25_11-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64<br> file /usr/pgsql-11/share/extension/postgis_topology.control from install of postgis31_11-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package postgis25_11-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64<br> file /usr/pgsql-11/bin/pgsql2shp from install of postgis31_11-client-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package postgis25_11-client-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64<br> file /usr/pgsql-11/bin/raster2pgsql from install of postgis31_11-client-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package postgis25_11-client-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64<br> file /usr/pgsql-11/bin/shp2pgsql from install of postgis31_11-client-3.1.2-1.rhel7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package postgis25_11-client-2.5.4-1.rhel7.x86_64<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I have seen the document for 'Hard Upgrade' but that is unfortunately a long route to take for critical databases.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Postgresql Version - 11.7<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>OS - RHEL 7.9<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Full Version Details - <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>PostgreSQL 11.7 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-39), 64-bit POSTGIS="2.5.4" [EXTENSION] PGSQL="110" GEOS="3.8.1-CAPI-1.13.3" PROJ="Rel. 7.0.0, March 1st, 2020" GDA<br><br>L="GDAL 3.0.4, released 2020/01/28" LIBXML="2.9.1" LIBJSON="0.11" LIBPROTOBUF="1.0.2" RASTER<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks and Regards,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Nikhil<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>