Re: Upgrade from 9.5.4 to 9.6.1

On 11/15/2016 2:37 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> All my previous version upgrades were performed by running
> pg_dumpall in
> the older version followed by running 'pgsql -f ...' to install the
> dumped
> .sql file, usually because the upgrade jumped several versions. Now
> I'd like
> to try the available postgres commands.
>
> The older version is installed in /var/lib/pgsql/9.5/data and I just
> initiated the new version in /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data. The earlier
> version is
> currently running.
>
> Is pg_upgrade the recommended way to upgrade from one minor version
> to the
> next? The 9.5 manual recommends this approach for _major_ upgrades (e.g.,
> 8.4.7 to 9.6.1), but not for _minor_ upgrades (e.g., 9.0.1 to 9.0.4).
> That's
> a first digit upgrade and a third digit upgrade. Since 9.5.4 to 9.6.1
> is a
> second digit upgrade I suppose it's semi-major, but in which upgrade camp
> does it belong?
>

9.5 is considered a major version, 9.5.4 is a minor. this will change
when 10 is released, from 10 on, major versions will be 10, 11, 12, ...

> The command is:
>
> pg_upgrade -b oldbindir -B newbindir -d olddatadir -D newdatadir
>
> and I don't know where to find -b and -B. On my Slackware-14.1 server
> I have
> /usr/bin/postgres and assume it is for the 9.5 release since that's
> running
> and the 9.6 release is initiated but not invoked. The data directories
> are
> easy but where do I look for the two bindirs?

based on the data paths you gave, I'm guessing you're on a
redhat/centos/fedora type distribution? those put the binaries in
/usr/pgsql-X.Y/bin for version X.Y

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