Re: BUG #15376: Postgres sql 9.4.19 pg_upgrade stops with error The source cluster was not shut down cleanly.

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 07:20:47AM +0530, kalyani kaniganti wrote:
> Hi Bruce.
>
> Below commands are executed.
>
> pg_ctl -D <path to old data> stop
>
> output
> pg_ctl: PID file "/tmp/folder/postgresql/postmaster.pid" does not exist
> Is server running?
>
> pg_controldata <path to old data>  output displayed as Database cluster : in
> production
>
> pg_ctl status displays server not running
>
> We have performed same steps and executed this script with 9.4.17 version of 
> postgreSQL and its working fine.
> We can get the upgarded DB and we have compared the pg_control data in 9.4.17
> version we can see the DB cluster status is in shut down state for NEW DB data
> and OLD DB data.
>
> We are not understanding what has changed from 9.4.17 to 9.4.19.

My guess is that Postgres was improperly shut down before you tried
using pg_ctl stop. Of course, you didn't show me anything exact, so I
can only guess.

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