Re: pg_upgrade error - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: pg_upgrade error
Date
Msg-id 20151207210455.GA28279@momjian.us
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In response to pg_upgrade error  (Yogi Barot <YBarot@symcor.com>)
Responses Re: pg_upgrade error
List pgsql-admin
On Mon, Dec  7, 2015 at 05:44:06PM +0000, Yogi Barot wrote:
> Hi,
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> I am doing pg upgrade from postgresql 9.0.19 to postgresql 9.4 CE version.
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> Database size is 300GB.
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> Pg_upgade check runs fine but pg_upgrade fails with following error:
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> linking "/opt/symcor-foa/pgsql/data/pg_tblspc/federator/PG_9.0_201008051/
> 10349572/11838" to "/opt/symcor-foa/pgsql/data/pg_tblspc/federator/
> PG_9.4_201409291/16434/13013"
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> error while creating link for relation "pg_catalog.pg_largeobject" ("/opt/
> symcor-foa/pgsql/data/pg_tblspc/federator/PG_9.0_201008051/10349572/11838" to "
> /opt/symcor-foa/pgsql/data/pg_tblspc/federator/PG_9.4_201409291/16434/13013"):
> No such file or directory
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> Failure, exiting
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> How can I resolve this or resume upgrade?
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> The directory "/opt/symcor-foa/pgsql/data/pg_tblspc/federator/PG_9.0_201008051/
> 10349572/11838” does not exist in old cluster, how can I change or remove
> reference to this directory?

My guess is that you have a mismatch between the symbolic links used in
data/pg_tblspc/ and pg_tablespace.spclocation.
pg_tablespace.spclocation. was removed in Postgres 9.2, but in older
releases you could have moved the tablespace without updating that
field, causing pg_upgrade failures.

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