> > Here is the message on --hackers that explains the above: > > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20130214052952.ga10...@momjian.us > > Let me read into this.
> > >> While the upgrade was successful, I find it unusable and leaving me with >> a lot of manual labor ahead of me. Because it leaves the old folders >> there, which have to be deleted manually. The same with all the other >> data files, like postgresql.conf for example. Something that >> uninstalling 9.0 doesn't remove. In other words now I am left with a >> dirty /usr/local/pgsql/data folder and having to modify the postgres >> startup script. Or manually delete all the files and folders I don't >> want and reinstall Posgres 9.3 in the default location and create new >> symlinks. >> > > Well one of the options in the upgrade process is to move the old > installation out of the way into another directory and then install the new > version into the default location. That would eliminate the above issues. > No it does not because pg_upgrade doesn't seem to be able to handle tablespaces, which is the problem I have been having all along and I keep on proving it. Below is the error when moving the 9.0 directory with a tablespace: [pgsql@postgres-93-upgrade /tmp]$ time /opt/bin/pg_upgrade -d /usr/local/pgsql_90/data -D /usr/local/pgsql/data/ -b /usr/local/bin/ -B /opt/bin/ -p 5452 -P 5451 Performing Consistency Checks ----------------------------- Checking cluster versions ok Checking database user is a superuser ok Checking for prepared transactions ok Checking for reg* system OID user data types ok Checking for contrib/isn with bigint-passing mismatch ok Creating dump of global objects ok Creating dump of database schemas ok Checking for presence of required libraries ok Checking database user is a superuser ok Checking for prepared transactions ok If pg_upgrade fails after this point, you must re-initdb the new cluster before continuing. Performing Upgrade ------------------ Analyzing all rows in the new cluster ok Freezing all rows on the new cluster ok Deleting files from new pg_clog ok Copying old pg_clog to new server ok Setting next transaction ID for new cluster ok Setting oldest multixact ID on new cluster ok Resetting WAL archives ok Setting frozenxid counters in new cluster ok Restoring global objects in the new cluster ok Adding support functions to new cluster ok Restoring database schemas in the new cluster ok Removing support functions from new cluster ok Copying user relation files .../pgsql/data/drupal_dbspace/PG_9.0_201008051/24659/11790 error while copying relation "pg_catalog.pg_largeobject" ("/usr/local/pgsql/data/drupal_dbspace/PG_9.0_201008051/24659/11790" to "/usr/local/pgsql/data/drupal_dbspace/PG_9.3_201306121/16421/12301"): No such file or directory Failure, exiting real 0m25.486s user 0m0.978s sys 0m2.872s