Re: upgrade and migrate

2019-12-06 Thread Julie Nishimura
-general Subject: Re: upgrade and migrate Off topic but food for thought given the jump in versions 8.3 to (9.6 or greater.) List of major changes i can think of to watch out for that can bite without warning.. SQL operators~=~ for Like were drop in 8.4 => for hstore was drop in 9.0 in

Re: upgrade and migrate

2019-12-06 Thread Justin
l-general@lists.postgresql.org ; > pgsql-general > *Subject:* Re: upgrade and migrate > > Stephen Frost writes: > > * Laurenz Albe (laurenz.a...@cybertec.at) wrote: > >> Right, Slony is the way to go, since pg_upgrade doesn't support 8.3. > >> I would upgr

Re: upgrade and migrate

2019-12-06 Thread Adrian Klaver
*From:* Tom Lane *Sent:* Wednesday, December 4, 2019 5:28 AM *To:* Stephen Frost *Cc:* Laurenz Albe ; Michael Paquier ; Julie Nishimura ; pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org ; pgsql-general *Subject:* Re: upgrade and migrate Stephen Frost writes: * Laurenz Albe

Re: upgrade and migrate

2019-12-06 Thread Julie Nishimura
step requires downtime. Second does not. Correct? -Julie From: Tom Lane Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 5:28 AM To: Stephen Frost Cc: Laurenz Albe ; Michael Paquier ; Julie Nishimura ; pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org ; pgsql-general Subject: Re: upgrade

Re: upgrade and migrate

2019-12-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 2019-12-04 08:56, Laurenz Albe wrote: On Wed, 2019-12-04 at 13:48 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 10:32:22PM +, Julie Nishimura wrote: Hello, what is the best way to migrate from PostgreSQL 8.3.11 on x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu to PostgreSQL 9.6.16 on x86_64-pc-linux-gn

Re: upgrade and migrate

2019-12-04 Thread Tom Lane
Stephen Frost writes: > * Laurenz Albe (laurenz.a...@cybertec.at) wrote: >> Right, Slony is the way to go, since pg_upgrade doesn't support 8.3. >> I would upgrade to a version more recent than 9.6. > So... there's a bit of history here. pg_upgrade in 9.4 actually does > support upgrading from

Re: upgrade and migrate

2019-12-04 Thread Stephen Frost
Greetings, * Laurenz Albe (laurenz.a...@cybertec.at) wrote: > On Wed, 2019-12-04 at 13:48 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 10:32:22PM +, Julie Nishimura wrote: > > > Hello, what is the best way to migrate from PostgreSQL 8.3.11 on > > > x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu to Postg

Re: upgrade and migrate

2019-12-04 Thread Michael Paquier
On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 08:38:01AM +0100, Thomas Kellerer wrote: > But pg_upgrade only supports 8.4+ Ditto. You're right here. -- Michael signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: upgrade and migrate

2019-12-03 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Wed, 2019-12-04 at 13:48 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 10:32:22PM +, Julie Nishimura wrote: > > Hello, what is the best way to migrate from PostgreSQL 8.3.11 on > > x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu to PostgreSQL 9.6.16 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > > server, with minimal downtime

Re: upgrade and migrate

2019-12-03 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Michael Paquier schrieb am 04.12.2019 um 05:48: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 10:32:22PM +, Julie Nishimura wrote: >> Hello, what is the best way to migrate from PostgreSQL 8.3.11 on >> x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu to PostgreSQL 9.6.16 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu >> server, with minimal downtime? >> The cave

Re: upgrade and migrate

2019-12-03 Thread Ron
On 12/3/19 10:48 PM, Michael Paquier wrote: On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 10:32:22PM +, Julie Nishimura wrote: Hello, what is the best way to migrate from PostgreSQL 8.3.11 on x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu to PostgreSQL 9.6.16 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu server, with minimal downtime? The caveat is the sourc

Re: upgrade and migrate

2019-12-03 Thread Michael Paquier
On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 10:32:22PM +, Julie Nishimura wrote: > Hello, what is the best way to migrate from PostgreSQL 8.3.11 on > x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu to PostgreSQL 9.6.16 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu > server, with minimal downtime? > The caveat is the source has about 80 databases overall almost