On 3/13/20 6:47 AM, Zwettler Markus (OIZ) wrote:
> We are running Postgres 9.6 on server A.
>
> We want to upgrade it to Postgres 12 on server B.
>
> pg_upgrade requires the old (-b) and new (-B) binary set on the same server.
>
> We don't want to install both binary sets on the same server as we had
> some library conflicts in the past.
>
> Is there still a way to use pg_upgrade without the old (-b) binary set
> (I am aware of pg_dump/pg_restore)?
No. As I understand it pg_upgrade needs to see the state of old instance
to recreate that state on the new instance.
>
> Markus
>
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