Re: pg_upgrade & tablespaces - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: pg_upgrade & tablespaces
Date
Msg-id 52BE008C.7060204@gmail.com
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In response to Re: pg_upgrade & tablespaces  (Joseph Kregloh <jkregloh@sproutloud.com>)
List pgsql-general
On 12/27/2013 01:00 PM, Joseph Kregloh wrote:
>
>     Postgres is going to /usr/local/pgsql/data/drupal___dbspace/ to look
>     for the 9.0 files instead of
>     /usr/local/pgsql_90/data/__drupal_dbspace/ and is trying to copy
>     them as 9.3 versions into the new default location which has the
>     same path. Since the new
>     /usr/local/pgsql/data/drupal___dbspace/PG_9.0_201008051 is empty it
>     is failing.
>
>
> That is exactly what is going on. I think what I am going to end up
> doing is:
>
> - Leaving 9.0 in the default location, this way it will successfully
> complete PG upgrade.
> - Uninstall 9.0
> - Manually move the user created tablespaces into the 9.3 data folder
> - Reinstall 9.3 to go into the default location, right now its installed
> in /opt using the PREFIX
> - Move the 9.3 data folder into the default location.

Got to thinking about this. What you could try is:

Move the 9.3 data directory, with the exception of the tablespace, into
the default location. Leave the upgraded 9.3 tablespace itself in /opt.

> - Cleanup the old 9.0 folders
>
> Then in theory it should start right up.
>
> I would assume that if the user created tablespaces were created outside
> of the /data folder then this would not be an issue. But again, I am not
> the DBA, I clean up after everybody else.
>
> Thanks for all your help Adrian.
>
>   -Joseph


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