Re: upgrades and streaming replication

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Charles Sprickman <spork(at)biglist(dot)com>wrote:

> I just wanted to check if there are any updates on the preferred way to
> upgrade a group of servers that are using streaming replication with
> minimal downtime.
> <snip>
> * No good options to speed up the slave copy - rsync will either use
> timestamps to figure out if a file changed (and streaming skews that), or
> checksumming (and checksumming is slow).
> <snip>
> Is that still pretty much the situation today with 9.2 and 9.3?
>

Charles,

I am also concerned about upgrading our 9.2 servers which are set up using
streaming replication. I would prefer not to copy the data over via rsync,
since that is pretty time consuming. Does anybody know if there any other
options to do an in-place upgrade?

Thanks,
Grant