On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Yang, Leo <leo.y...@hp.com> wrote: > I run “pg_upgrade -xx” fromPostgreSQL8.3 to PostgreSQL9.4.5 on window server > 2008. It will show some wrong information: > > cannot write to log file pg_upgrade_internal.log > > Failure, exiting. > It seems that the upgrade can be successful on window 7. It seems to be a > permissions problem. I get some information about restricting privileges > from source code, and I find the changes “Run pg_upgrade and pg_resetxlog > with restricted privileges on Windows, so that they don't fail when run by > an administrator (refer to > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-2.html )” for release > 9.4.2. Why did you do this?
The original commit regarding the use of restricted permissions is that: commit: 2366761bf9eb8e9aa3820b9f3491bcfc48b8188f author: Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:16:57 -0400 Run pg_upgrade and pg_resetxlog with restricted token on Windows And that's a problem that has been discussed here to correct the fact that pg_upgrade cannot run with a user that has administrator rights on Windows: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAEB4t-NpXGiP5Bqvv3P+d+x=v4bqe+awg+g7ennbn8icpxe...@mail.gmail.com Note that pg_upgrade_internal.log gets opened *before* the restricted token is taken for the process running pg_upgrade when the options are parsed, so it seems hard to believe that your problem and this fix are related. > How can I solve this problem? I hope you can help me. I think that you should first check if the user under which you are running the upgrade has sufficient permissions to write those log files. As far as I can see, there is nothing to blame from the code. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
