Hi,

We're trying to upgrade a 9.0 database to 9.3 using pg_upgrade. The upgrade 
must be automated so a manual pg_dump / pg_restore is not an option.
We use the following command:
D:\PostgreSQL\9.3\Data>"c:\Program Files 
(x86)\PostgreSQL\9.3\bin\pg_upgrade.exe" -d "D:\PostgreSQL\Data" -D 
"D:\PostgreSQL\9.3\Data" -b "C:\Program Files (x86)\PostgreSQL\9.0\bin" -B 
"C:\Program Files (x86)\PostgreSQL\9.3\bin" -u postgres -c -P 5432

This is on a Windows 7 64 bit environment.
We've given the postgres windows user full permissions to all folders involved 
and are running the upgrade in a cmd prompt opened with runas  /user:postgres

The upgrade works all the way up until the final hurdle where, in the 
pg_upgrade_utility.log the following statement appears:
command: ""C:\Program Files (x86)\PostgreSQL\9.3\bin/initdb" --sync-only 
"D:\PostgreSQL\9.3\Data" >> "pg_upgrade_utility.log" 2>&1"
syncing data to disk ... initdb: could not open file 
"D:/PostgreSQL/9.3/Data/pg_upgrade_utility.log": Permission denied

It seems odd that the log states that it has no permission to the file that 
it's writing the error in but I guessed it might be because both pg_upgrade and 
initdb are both trying to write to the same file. I therefore tried the initdb 
command manually and it still fails with the same message.

After this failure, if we try to run PG 9.3 it starts up fine and everything 
seems to be in order. All the data exists and there are no errors in the PG log 
at startup. I don't really want to simply ignore this error but it doesn't seem 
to be causing any issues.

Any ideas?


Regards,

Russell Keane
INPS

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