Upgrading old server

From: Ekaterina Amez <ekaterina(dot)amez(at)zunibal(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Upgrading old server
Date: 2019-09-25 14:21:34
Message-ID: 8818b028-bd2d-412e-d4e3-e29c49ffee17@zunibal.com
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Hi All,

We've decided to upgrade our PostgreSQL production servers. First task
is remove an old v7.14 version. It was supposed to be upgraded to a v8.4
server. The server was installed, several databases where released here
but v7.4 was never migrated. The plan is pg_dump this database and psql
it to existing 8.4 server. After this, we'll pg_upgrade. In order to
make some tests to be ready for production server I'd like to know what
would be the best approach: upgrade to v10 or maybe v11? Or start
upgrading to 9.6 and if everything goes fine migrate to v10/v11?

If is useful: server is CentOS 6.8.

I've installed succesfully a backup of the old v7.14 version in my v8.4
test server (with some help of psql-admin list), and now that I've
studied a bit about pg_upgrade-ing I'm going to upgrade installed PG
version to the one that's the best for this situation.

Thank you all,

Ekaterina

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