Re: Version upgrade: is restoring the postgres database needed?

On 03/01/2018 09:22 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 03/01/2018 11:03 AM, Melvin Davidson wrote:
>>

>>
>> *Current*
>> postgres=# \l
>>      List of databases
>>     Name     |  Owner   | Encoding | Collate   |    Ctype    |
>> Access privileges
>> -------------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------
>> CSSCAT_STI   | CSS      | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
>> CSS=CTc/CSS          +
>>              |          | |             |             |
>> =Tc/CSS              +
>>              |          | |             |             |
>> app_user=CTc/CSS
>> CSSCAT_STIB  | CSS      | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
>> CSS=CTc/CSS          +
>>              |          | |             |             |
>> =Tc/CSS              +
>>              |          | |             |             |
>> app_user=CTc/CSS
>> CSSCAT_STIC  | CSS      | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
>> CSS=CTc/CSS          +
>>              |          | |             |             |
>> =Tc/CSS              +
>>              |          | |             |             |
>> app_user=CTc/CSS
>>
>> *Newly restored*
>> postgres=# \l
>>      List of databases
>>     Name     |  Owner   | Encoding | Collate   |    Ctype    |
>> Access privileges
>> -------------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------
>> CSSCAT_STIB | CSS      | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
>> CSSCAT_STIC | CSS      | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
>> postgres    | postgres | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
>>
>>
>> --
>> Angular momentum makes the world go 'round.
>>
>>
>> *>$ pg_dump -Fc PROD > PROD.pgdump
>> >$ pg_dump --globals-only postgres > globals.sql
>> >$ pg_dump -Fc postgres > postgres.pgdump
>>
>> *
>> *The last I looked, pg_dump does not have a "--globals-only"
>> *
>> *Did you mean?
>> $ pg_dump -Fc PROD > PROD.pgdump
>>
>> $ pg_dumpall --globals-only postgres > globals.sql
>> OR
>> $ pg_dumpall -g > globals.sql
>>
>> $ pg_dump -Fc postgres > postgres.pgdump*
>
> Hmmm.  I just looked at the script, and it says:
>
> $ pg_dumpall --schema-only > globals.sql
>
> That's not good.

Well it would dump the globals, but also the schema definitions for all
the objects in the cluster. Though at this point we are only half way
through the process. What is you restore procedure?

>
>
> --
> Angular momentum makes the world go 'round.

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Adrian Klaver
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