upgrading postgres 7.3.4 to 9.1.9

From: Khangelani Gama <kgama(at)argility(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: upgrading postgres 7.3.4 to 9.1.9
Date: 2014-08-04 10:34:52
Message-ID: bf801eb082936b7671c4f7dfb26beec3@mail.gmail.com
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Hi

Please help me here, there was an upgrade done by someone who left the
company but there is one database which was not upgraded. The server has
several instances running on it but this one instance is still on postgres
7.

I dumped postgres 7 database using pg_dump –Fc on postgres 7 binaries and
then attempted pg_restore –Fc (using postgres9.1.9 binaries) which threw
out the following errors. Note that postgres 7 is still running on it’s own
instance. I am doing this postgres 9 restore on a different port and
different instance to get it right first before implementing the change.

ERROR: language "plpgsql" already exists

DETAIL: Proceeding with relation creation anyway.

ERROR: could not access file "$libdir/plperl": No such file or directory

ERROR: function public.plperl_call_handler() does not exist

ERROR: could not access file "$libdir/plperl": No such file or directory

ERROR: language "plperlu" does not exist

Because of the above errors I tried the following

/usr/local/pgsql9/bin/createlang -p59999 plperl template1

createlang: language installation failed: ERROR: could not open extension
control file "/usr/local/pgsql9/share/extension/plperl.control": No such
file or directory

Then I looked for where extention is located:

~> locate plperl.control

/home/ellerines/pgsql9_upgrade/postgresql-9.1.9/src/pl/plperl/plperl.control

> /home/ellerines/pgsql9_upgrade/postgresql-9.1.9/src/bin

total 44K

-rw-r--r-- 1 1107 1107 658 Apr 1 2013 Makefile

drwxrwxrwx 2 1107 1107 4.0K Apr 1 2013 pgevent

drwxrwxrwx 3 1107 1107 4.0K Aug 18 2013 initdb

drwxrwxrwx 3 1107 1107 4.0K Aug 18 2013 pg_ctl

drwxrwxrwx 3 1107 1107 4.0K Aug 18 2013 pg_dump

drwxrwxrwx 3 1107 1107 4.0K Aug 18 2013 psql

drwxrwxrwx 3 1107 1107 4.0K Aug 18 2013 scripts

drwxrwxrwx 3 1107 1107 4.0K Aug 18 2013 pg_controldata

drwxrwxrwx 3 1107 1107 4.0K Aug 18 2013 pg_config

drwxrwxrwx 3 1107 1107 4.0K Aug 18 2013 pg_resetxlog

drwxrwxrwx 3 1107 1107 4.0K Aug 18 2013 pg_basebackup

How can then do a pg_restore to prevent errors above?

Kind regards,

Khangelani

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