Re: Upgrading cluster with thousands of DBs

From: Gabriele Bartolini <Gabriele(dot)Bartolini(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)it>
To: Alejandro Martínez <zen(at)itram(dot)es>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Upgrading cluster with thousands of DBs
Date: 2014-01-14 10:52:54
Message-ID: 44a4dc84fdacc9750facb2126d77a9a9@2ndquadrant.it
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Hi,

On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:45:33 +0100, Alejandro Martínez <zen(at)itram(dot)es>
wrote:
> However, our clusters have the particularity that they get to host
> many different *databases*, as in, ~2000 databases per cluster. Most
> of those databases are small (only a table and PostGIS functions), so
> it's more a problem of the number of DBs than the space they use. The
> total size of the cluster is around 60gb.

If this is your case, I'd suggest an "old-school" approach and migrate
one database at a time on a new server with Postgres 9.3.

Cheers,
Gabriele
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Gabriele Bartolini - 2ndQuadrant Italia
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Gabriele(dot)Bartolini(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)it - www.2ndQuadrant.it

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