Postgres upgrade from 9.4.9 to 9.6 using pg_upgrade error

Started by Ashish Chauhanover 9 years ago3 messagesgeneral
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#1Ashish Chauhan
Ashish.Chauhan@support.com

Hi,

I am planning to upgrade our current Postgres 9.4.9 to 9.6 version using pg_upgrade method to reduce Production downtime. I followed below steps so far,

* Postgres 9.4.9 running on 5432 port.

* Same server, installed Postgres 9.6, its running fine on 5433 port.

* Stop both the Postgres services through pg_ctrlcluster method.

* Running below command to upgrade server.

o sudo -H -u postgres /usr/lib/postgresql/9.6/bin/pg_upgrade -b /usr/lib/postgresql/9.4/bin -B /usr/lib/postgresql/9.6/bin -d /var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.6/main -o '-c config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.4/main/postgresql.conf' -o '-c config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.6/main/postgresql.conf'

*

* I am getting below error while executing above command:

command: "/usr/lib/postgresql/9.4/bin/pg_ctl" -w -l "pg_upgrade_server.log" -D "/var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main" -o "-p 50432 -b -c config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.4/main/postgresql.conf -c config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.6/main/postgresql.conf -c listen_addresses='' -c unix_socket_permissions=0700 -c unix_socket_directories='/tmp'" start >> "pg_upgrade_server.log" 2>&1

waiting for server to start....2016-10-18 22:11:30 UTC [13107-1] FATAL: database files are incompatible with server

2016-10-18 22:11:30 UTC [13107-2] DETAIL: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 9.6, which is not compatible with this version 9.4.9.

stopped waiting

pg_ctl: could not start server

Examine the log output.

Is it possible to upgrade Postgres 9.4.9 to 9.6 with pg_upgrade option or I need to do it through pg_dump only? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Ashish Chauhan

#2Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Ashish Chauhan (#1)
Re: Postgres upgrade from 9.4.9 to 9.6 using pg_upgrade error

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 10:15:47PM +0000, Ashish Chauhan wrote:

� I am getting below error while executing above command:

command: "/usr/lib/postgresql/9.4/bin/pg_ctl" -w -l "pg_upgrade_server.log" -D
"/var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main" -o "-p 50432 -b -c config_file=/etc/postgresql/
9.4/main/postgresql.conf -c config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.6/main/
postgresql.conf -c listen_addresses='' -c unix_socket_permissions=0700 -c
unix_socket_directories='/tmp'" start >> "pg_upgrade_server.log" 2>&1

waiting for server to start....2016-10-18 22:11:30 UTC [13107-1] FATAL:
database files are incompatible with server

2016-10-18 22:11:30 UTC [13107-2] DETAIL: The data directory was initialized
by PostgreSQL version 9.6, which is not compatible with this version 9.4.9.

stopped waiting

pg_ctl: could not start server

Examine the log output.

Is it possible to upgrade Postgres 9.4.9 to 9.6 with pg_upgrade option or I
need to do it through pg_dump only? Any help would be appreciated.

It should work. I think you haven't follow the cluster initialization
instructions properly and installed the wrong version somewhere.

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#3wd
wd@wdicc.com
In reply to: Ashish Chauhan (#1)
Re: Postgres upgrade from 9.4.9 to 9.6 using pg_upgrade error

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 6:15 AM, Ashish Chauhan <Ashish.Chauhan@support.com>
wrote:

*2016-10-18 22:11:30 UTC [13107-1] FATAL: database files are incompatible
with server*

*2016-10-18 22:11:30 UTC [13107-2] DETAIL: The data directory was
initialized by PostgreSQL version 9.6, which is not compatible with this
version 9.4.9.*

It seems the old-datadir /var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main is init by postgres
version 9.6?