Re: Upgrade Rhel7.9 to Rhel9.3

On 3/6/24 14:49, garyorban(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:
> Appreciate the help. The person who performed the original upgrades
> in no longer with us. I believe they used an RPM for that install .
>
> I was able to get postgres 12 to start on rhel 9.3 with the following
> tweaks.
>
> Copied over libcrypto, libssl , libreadline and libtinfo from
> another rhel 7 server. Also needed symlinks for libicuil8n and
> libicuuc .
>
> I was able to access the DB and perform simple queries . Do you think
> this approach will work, as I'm a bit leery . If not what do you
> think would be a better option?

Yeah, it can be done like that but it sounds a bit sketchy and would
make me nervous.

I would recommend installing the rhel9 binaries from RPMs instead.
See https://yum.postgresql.org/ for the Postgres community curated repo,
for example.

As long as the rhel9 new binaries are the same architecture (e.g.
x86_64) and major version (e.g. 12.18), they should "just work" with
your existing data directory.

Although that said, as I mentioned in my first response, indexes built
on collatable columns most likely need to be rebuilt due to the newer
version of glibc on the rhel9 system. The rebuilds should be done
*before* allowing any "writes" (inserts or updates) to the new instance.
Other potential collation issues as illustrated in the presentation I
linked should also be considered, e.g. partition keys.

Overall, it sounds to me like you should get a consulting/support
company to help you with this. See:
https://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support/

Hope this helps,

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Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
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