Re: Additional Help in vetting my steps for Postgres DB upgrade from Ver 13.X to ver 15.X

On 12/16/24 14:30, Bharani SV-forum wrote:
> *a) *
> *user = *
> postgres
>
> b)
> *pg_dump version = *
> /usr/bin/pg_dump -V
>
> pg_dump (PostgreSQL) 13.16
>
> c)
>
> *DB version*
>
> select version () ;
>                                                  version
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  PostgreSQL 13.16 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.8.5
> 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44), 64-bit
>
> *use this script for backup*
>
> pg_dump -Fp -p 5432 -U "$USERNAME" "$DATABASE"
>
> using username = postgres
>
> for one of the DB (ver 13.16), it worked fine by doing oldvm = pg_dump
> from ver 13.16 and
> later restoring in new VM with new OS and new db binary 15.09, post
> creating dummy db (appln related) and restoring the pg_dump from oldvm .
>

That's nice, but the issue is the case that did not work.

What process where you running that caused the error?

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Adrian Klaver
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