Re: Upgrading from 8.4 and 9.0 to 9.1

From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
To: Scott Briggs <scott(dot)br(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Upgrading from 8.4 and 9.0 to 9.1
Date: 2012-05-07 19:28:34
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On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 15:10 -0400, Scott Briggs wrote:
> Hi, so I have a master-slave set of database servers that are running
> postgres 9.0 using streaming replication and I'd like to migrate them
> to 9.1. My question is, can 9.0 do streaming replication to 9.1?

No.

> If
> not, what's the best way to upgrade a production database to 9.1 with
> no downtime?
>

No downtime? you'll obviously have downtime to get the new binaries.
Anyway, you should try pg_upgrade to have less downtime.

> I also have a number of 8.4 servers that I'd like to upgrade to 9.1,
> can 8.4 ship WAL files to 9.1?
>

Nope. Streaming replication doesn't work between major versions.

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Guillaume
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