Re: pg_upgrade from V9.3.3 to V9.4.0

Thanks Harshad,

I'll give this a try on Monday morning.
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Jay

On 1/10/2015 8:43 AM, Harshad Adalkonda wrote:
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> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 3:57 AM, John Scalia <jayknowsunix(at)gmail(dot)com <mailto:jayknowsunix(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> While we're not planning to migrate to the new version, I'm trying to gain some experience as the streaming replication has really changed in this version and indicates
> future directions for it. My environment is virtualized CentO/S 6.5, and this particular server is the current primary, not a standby. My problem is that the pg_upgrade is
> just hanging - for over an hour, before I killed it. I only see a "Verifying Cluster" message, and that's it. Even the 3 logs written by pg_upgrade, don't really tell me any
> more. Am I trying to go too far with this upgrade? Do I need to bring it V9.3.4 first, or what? The behavior just seems a bit odd. I've only run this prior going from 9.2.2
> to 9.3.3 and that had no issues.
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> Jay
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> Hi John Scalia,
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> I have tried pg_upgrade from 9.3.3 to 9.4.0 and i have done with the following procedure which will solve your problem.
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> Create .pgpass file in users home directory ~/.pgpass and add both server with their respective user & password
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> Now Shut down 9.3.3 & 9.4.0 cluster
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> Now when ever you run pg_upgrade utility the present working directory (pwd) should have write access of the current user e.g postgres
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> First just check if clusters are Clusters are compatible with using -c options
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> Example:
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> /opt/PostgreSQL/9.4/bin/pg_upgrade -c -v -d /tmp/PostgreSQL/9.3.3/data/ -D /tmp/PostgreSQL/9.4.0/data/ -b /opt/PostgreSQL/9.3.3/bin/ -B /opt/PostgreSQL/9.4/bin/ -p 5888 -P 5999
> -U postgres
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> If Result says Clusters are compatible then remove -c and start upgrading
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> Example:
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> /opt/PostgreSQL/9.4/bin/pg_upgrade -v -d /tmp/PostgreSQL/9.3.3/data/ -D /tmp/PostgreSQL/9.4.0/data/ -b /opt/PostgreSQL/9.3.3/bin/ -B /opt/PostgreSQL/9.4/bin/ -p 5888 -P 5999 -U
> postgres
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> If Result says Upgrade Complete then your upgrade is completed successfully.
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> I am also attaching the one file for reference.
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> Hope this will resolve your problem.
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> Thanks & Regards,
> Harshad Adalkonda
> Database Administrator
> http://www.shreeyansh.com
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