Re: Unable to upgrade old cluster from 8.4 to 9.0

There is already a bug filed for this:
http://bugs.debian.org/597600

According to mpitt (the maintainer), the supported upgrade path is to use
pg_upgradecluster

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Boris <sw0rdf1sh_i(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have Debian Linux (unstable) server, and I am trying to upgrade 8.4
> version
> database to 9.0, all developer packages for both versions were installed,
> as
> well as client ( postgresql-server-dev-8.4
> postgresql-client-8.4 postgresql-server-dev-9.0 postgresql-client-9.0).
>
> Here is the command I use
>
> /usr/lib/postgresql/9.0/bin/pg_upgrade -d -c /var/lib/postgresql/8.4/main/
> -D
> /var/lib/postgresql/9.0/main/ -b /usr/lib/postgresql/8.4/bin/ -B
> /usr/lib/postgresql/9.0/bin/ --user=postgres
>
> output is as follows:
>
> Performing Consistency Checks
> -----------------------------
> Checking old data directory (-c)
> check for base failed: No such file or directory
>
>
> I stopped server as it was suggested in upgrade manual
> (http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/pgupgrade.html)
> All data directories are exist:
>
> $ ls -lha /var/lib/postgresql/8.4/main/
> total 72K
> drwx------ 11 postgres postgres 4.0K Sep 22 23:25 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Sep 22 23:03 ..
> drwx------ 11 postgres postgres 4.0K Feb 13 2010 base
> drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4.0K Sep 21 15:41 global
> drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4.0K Mar 4 2010 pg_clog
> drwx------ 4 postgres postgres 4.0K Dec 3 2009 pg_multixact
> drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4.0K Sep 21 15:41 pg_stat_tmp
> drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4.0K Sep 12 00:58 pg_subtrans
> drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4.0K Dec 3 2009 pg_tblspc
> drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4.0K Dec 3 2009 pg_twophase
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 4 Dec 3 2009 PG_VERSION
> drwx------ 3 postgres postgres 4.0K Sep 18 13:26 pg_xlog
> -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres 17K Sep 22 23:25 postgresql.conf
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 133 Sep 15 21:01 postmaster.opts
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Dec 3 2009 server.crt ->
> /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Dec 3 2009 server.key ->
> /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
>
>
> $ ls -lha /var/lib/postgresql/9.0/main/
> total 76K
> drwx------ 12 postgres postgres 4.0K Sep 23 13:34 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 postgres postgres 4.0K Sep 21 15:49 ..
> drwx------ 6 postgres postgres 4.0K Sep 22 22:51 base
> drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4.0K Sep 23 13:34 global
> drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4.0K Sep 21 15:49 pg_clog
> drwx------ 4 postgres postgres 4.0K Sep 21 15:49 pg_multixact
> drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4.0K Sep 23 11:52 pg_notify
> drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4.0K Sep 23 13:34 pg_stat_tmp
> drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4.0K Sep 21 15:49 pg_subtrans
> drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4.0K Sep 21 15:49 pg_tblspc
> drwx------ 2 postgres postgres 4.0K Sep 21 15:49 pg_twophase
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 4 Sep 21 15:49 PG_VERSION
> drwx------ 3 postgres postgres 4.0K Sep 21 15:49 pg_xlog
> -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres 18K Sep 22 23:27 postgresql.conf
> -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 133 Sep 23 11:52 postmaster.opts
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Sep 22 23:00 server.crt ->
> /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Sep 22 23:00 server.key ->
> /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
>
>
>
> Can anyone please give some advice why pg_upgrade fails to uprage old
> cluster to
> new one?
>
>
>
>
>
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