Re: postgresql9.4 aws - no pg_upgrade

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: bala jayaram <balajayaram22(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: postgresql9.4 aws - no pg_upgrade
Date: 2017-10-15 05:09:20
Message-ID: 5c0dd3a9-bee1-13ce-04aa-18571b12e5c4@commandprompt.com
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On 10/14/2017 08:53 PM, bala jayaram wrote:
> i want to upgrade my current aws ec2 postgresql9.3 to AWS RDS 9.4 server.
> so i would like to use pg_upgrade feature to convert 9.3 to 9.4 within
> EC2 instance for using amazon DMS (database migration service) utility.
> But i came to know that there is no pg_upgrade binary available from
> amazon repositories. Taking pg_dump from EC2 instance to RDS will take
> longer time, as our DB size is 300GB. Is there a way with less downtime
> for migrating existing EC2 9.3 to RDS?

Look into the -j option with pg_dump/pg_restore

JD

>
> Thanks
> Balaji Jayaraman
>

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