Re: pg_upgrade and ubuntu

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Jonathan Vanasco <postgres(at)2xlp(dot)com>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_upgrade and ubuntu
Date: 2014-11-14 20:57:42
Message-ID: 54666CC6.5060701@gmx.net
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On 11/14/14 2:10 PM, Jonathan Vanasco wrote:
> I ran into an issue migrating from 9.1 to 9.3 on ubuntu using pg_upgrade
>
> the default ubuntu package, and the one from postgresql.org, both store `postgresql.conf` in etc as `/etc/postgresql/VERSION/main/postgresql.conf`
>
> however, the pg_upgrade script expects it in the `datadir`.
>
> the simple solution seems to be just symlinking the /etc files into the data dirs.
>
> it took me a while to realize this was the error.
>
> it might make sense to upgrade the docs with a note about what should be in the data dir to enable an upgrade.

On Debian/Ubuntu, use pg_upgradecluster --method upgrade. See the man
page for details.

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