Re: Re: PG_UPGRADE issues "this utility can only upgrade to postgresql version 9.2."

On 13-06-18 02:06 PM, jmfox180 wrote:
> so after trying i advance just a little bit but when running pg_upgrade for a
> check or upgrade
>
> i get:
>
> pg_control values:
>
> First log file ID after reset: 0
> First log file segment after reset: 2
> pg_control version number: 922
> Catalog version number: 201204301
> Database system identifier: 5890882831378718649
> Latest checkpoint's TimeLineID: 1
> Latest checkpoint's full_page_writes: on
> Latest checkpoint's NextXID: 0/726
> Latest checkpoint's NextOID: 12047
> Latest checkpoint's NextMultiXactId: 1
> Latest checkpoint's NextMultiOffset: 0
> Latest checkpoint's oldestXID: 716
> Latest checkpoint's oldestXID's DB: 1
> Latest checkpoint's oldestActiveXID: 0
> Maximum data alignment: 4
> Database block size: 8192
> Blocks per segment of large relation: 131072
> WAL block size: 8192
> Bytes per WAL segment: 16777216
> Maximum length of identifiers: 64
> Maximum columns in an index: 32
> Maximum size of a TOAST chunk: 2000
> Date/time type storage: floating-point numbers
> Float4 argument passing: by value
> Float8 argument passing: by reference
> "/usr/local/pgsql.old/bin/pg_ctl" -w -l "pg_upgrade_server.log" -D
> "/usr/local/pgsql.old/data/" -o "-p 5432 -c autovacuum=off -c
> autovacuum_freeze_max_age=2000000000 -c listen_addresses='' -c
> unix_socket_permissions=0700" start >> "pg_upgrade_server.log" 2>&1
> *failure*
> There were problems executing ""/usr/local/pgsql.old/bin/pg_ctl" -w -l
> "pg_upgrade_server.log" -D "/usr/local/pgsql.old/data/" -o "-p 5432 -c
> autovacuum=off -c autovacuum_freeze_max_age=2000000000 -c
> listen_addresses='' -c unix_socket_permissions=0700" start >>
> "pg_upgrade_server.log" 2>&1"
> Consult the last few lines of "pg_upgrade_server.log" for
> the probable cause of the failure.
>
> pg_ctl failed to start the old server, or connection failed
> Failure, exiting
>
>
> when going to the log file:
>
> pg_upgrade run on Tue Jun 18 11:58:08 2013
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> command: "/usr/local/pgsql.old/bin/pg_ctl" -w -l "pg_upgrade_server.log" -D
> "/usr/local/pgsql.old/data/" -o "-p 5432 -c autovacuum=off -c $
> waiting for server to start....LOG: database system was shut down at
> 2013-06-18 11:30:47 CST
> LOG: database system is ready to accept connections
> ...........................................................could not start
> server
>
>
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>

Just a shot, but are you sure the user you're running the pg_upgrade
with has permissions to start the backend in /usr/local/pgsql.old/data/
? Can you do a test using pg_ctl? anything in postgres log?

Ziggy