On 05/27/2014 07:29 AM, Meik Weißbach wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> we want to upgrade our database from Postgres 8.3.23 to 9.1.12 using
> pg_upgrade. The documentation on pg_upgrade
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/pgupgrade.html) states the
> following:
>
> "Also, the default datetime storage format changed to integer after
> PostgreSQL 8.3. pg_upgrade will check that the datetime storage format
> used by the old and new clusters match. Make sure your new cluster is
> built with the configure flag --disable-integer-datetimes."
>
> We have a SLES 11 system. We installed Postgres 9.1.12 using Yast. We
> assume that our installation was built WITHOUT --disable-integer-datetimes.
>
> The pg_upgrade is running without any complaints. Since we assume that
> our 9.1-server is built without disable-integer-datetimes, we expect
> pg_upgrade to fail or giving some kind of notice.
>
> What is the expected behavior of pg_upgrade in the case that 9.1-server
> is not built with with disable-integer-datetimes?
>
> How do we determine, whether or not a server is built with
> disable-integer-datetimes?
As the postgres user do something like:
pg_controldata /usr/local/pgsql/data/
where the path is $DATA/ for your Postgres install
In the output should be:
Date/time type storage: 64-bit integers
>
> Best regards
>
> Meik Weißbach
>
>
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Adrian Klaver
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