[Feedback] Page: /self-hosted/latest/upgrades/minor-upgrade/

[eyadmba]

Is it easy to find the information you need?

No

Are the instructions clear?

No

How could we improve the Timescale documentation site?

Before I can do ALTER EXTENSION I need to have the latest version of the extension installed on the machine. Instructions for installing the latest version of the extension are not provided.

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[davidnbooth]

I must echo this feedback, I spent some time trying to update timescaleDB and the instructions provided on the site are simply incorrect, they do not work as written. As @eyadmba said, you must separately install the version of the extension that you are upgrading to (for your postgres version).

On Ubuntu I found that this was:

• Run the "Quick install instructions" from here*
• Run the apt commands to install the specific timescaledb package for your postgres/timescaleDB version pairing, e.g: sudo apt install timescaledb-2-postgresql-16='2.19.0*' timescaledb-2-loader-postgresql-16='2.19.0*'

*Following the "Install the TimescaleDB GPG key" step from the installation instructions didn't work here.

[billy-the-fish]

Hi @davidnbooth , @eyadmba . Thanks for reinforcing the message, and apologies for your frustration. Now that we have updated the install guides, we will test and update the update guides.