Re: RHEL certified repo provided PostgreSQL Major Version Upgrade. - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: RHEL certified repo provided PostgreSQL Major Version Upgrade.
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Msg-id 35e0128148572d2dadfbda0fe748dcac988d3722.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Re: RHEL certified repo provided PostgreSQL Major Version Upgrade.  (Sameer Malve <malvesameer@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, 2024-10-10 at 11:52 +0530, Sameer Malve wrote:
> I have few questions.
>
> 1. As I have observed, the PostgreSQL upgrade package has only the lower
>    major version binaries. So what if I want to upgrade from PG 13 to PG 16?

That works just the same.

> 2. If upgrade fails then what are the rollback steps. Do you know if it is documented somewhere? 

If you didn't use the --link option of pg_upgrade, you can simply fall back to
the old cluster.

If you used --link, you will have to restore your backup (or promote a standby
server that you prepared for this eventuality).

See the pg_upgrade documentation.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe



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