Re: Adding more detail to pg_upgrade documentation

On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 12:11:31AM +0530, Nikhil Shetty wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are upgrading from Postgres 11 to 13. During upgrade we found that the
> physical slots on the old cluster are not copied to the new cluster.
>
> This information is not mentioned in the documentation - https://
> www.postgresql.org/docs/13/pgupgrade.html
>
> Just thought it would be good to have this detail

All releases after 2022-07-14 have this mentioned:

commit 47ae6948f0
Author: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Date: Thu Jul 14 16:34:30 2022 -0400

pg_upgrade doc: mention that replication slots must be recreated

Reported-by: Nikhil Shetty

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFpL5Vxastip0Jei-K-=7cKXTg=5sahSe5g=om=x68NOX8+PUA@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 10

So, these releases:

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-145-138-1212-1117-1022-and-15-beta-3-released-2496/
PostgreSQL 14.5, 13.8, 12.12, 11.17, 10.22

See here:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/pgupgrade.html
Section 11.7
--> Replication slots are not copied and must be recreated.

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