Thread: PostgreSQL upgrade 9.3.4 -> 9.3.10

Dev Kumkar <devdas.kumkar@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> I want to upgrade my database from version 9.3.4 to 9.3.10.
>
> For this task, do I need to upgrade database using pg_upgrade utility?
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/pgupgrade.html

No.


> Can someone please provide more details here and also what steps needs to be
> done to upgrade to 9.3.10 level?

Just install the new version and restart PG.


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Hello:

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Dev Kumkar <devdas.kumkar@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to upgrade my database from version 9.3.4 to 9.3.10.
>
> For this task, do I need to upgrade database using pg_upgrade utility?
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/pgupgrade.html

No, that is a minor release. Minor version upgrades are normally just
install new vesion & restart. In fact we usually install the new
version over the old one and just restart the server ( but YMMV,
specially if you use one of those operating systems which do not let
you delete open files ).

Minor (9.3.4->9.3.10) version normally preserve on disk formats, so
nothing needs to be done.

Mayor ( 9.3.4 -> 9.4.x )  do not, and they normally need either a dump
& restore or a pg_upgrade ( which works like an optimized dump &
restore ).

In any case, read the release notes ( 9.3 docs, at
end,http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release.html ) for
versions 9.3.5-10, specially the headers, any special instructions
should be contained here, when you read 'A dump/restore is not
required for those running 9.3.X.' it meand you can just install and
restart.

> From the details it looks like for minor version upgrade pg_upgrade utility
> is not required.
> "pg_upgrade (formerly called pg_migrator) allows data stored in PostgreSQL
> data files to be upgraded to a later PostgreSQL major version without the
> data dump/reload typically required for major version upgrades, e.g. from
> 8.4.7 to the current major release of PostgreSQL. It is not required for
> minor version upgrades, e.g. from 9.0.1 to 9.0.4."
>
> Can someone please provide more details here and also what steps needs to be
> done to upgrade to 9.3.10 level?

When postgres changes on-disk formats it bumps the major version.
Normally these used to mean you needed to dump & restore the database,
( Using the NEWER dump/restore utilities, as 9.4 dump/restore know how
to deal with a 9.3 DB, but 9.3 D/R do not even know wether a 9.4
version exists )

pg_upgrade was developed because the on-disk format changes are
tipically minor, and a special program could be made to transform the
data from a version to a later one faster than dumping & restoring,
but is more or less equivalent to doing that. As minor version
upgrades do not need dump/restore, they do not need pg_upgrade either.

Francisco Olarte.

I want to upgrade my database from version 9.3.4 to 9.3.10.

For this task, do I need to upgrade database using pg_upgrade utility?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/pgupgrade.html

From the details it looks like for minor version upgrade pg_upgrade utility is not required.

"pg_upgrade (formerly called pg_migrator) allows data stored in PostgreSQL data files to be upgraded to a later PostgreSQL major version without the data dump/reload typically required for major version upgrades, e.g. from 8.4.7 to the current major release of PostgreSQL. It is not required for minor version upgrades, e.g. from 9.0.1 to 9.0.4."

Can someone please provide more details here and also what steps needs to be done to upgrade to 9.3.10 level?

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On 01/12/2016 01:37 AM, Shulgin, Oleksandr wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Dev Kumkar <devdas.kumkar@gmail.com
> <mailto:devdas.kumkar@gmail.com>> wrote:
>  >
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  >
>  > I want to upgrade my database from version 9.3.4 to 9.3.10.
>  >
>  > For this task, do I need to upgrade database using pg_upgrade utility?
>  > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/pgupgrade.html
>  >
>  >
>  > From the details it looks like for minor version upgrade pg_upgrade
> utility is not required.
>  > "pg_upgrade (formerly called pg_migrator) allows data stored in
> PostgreSQL data files to be upgraded to a later PostgreSQL major version
> without the data dump/reload typically required for major version
> upgrades, e.g. from 8.4.7 to the current major release of PostgreSQL. It
> is not required for minor version upgrades, e.g. from 9.0.1 to 9.0.4."
>  >
>  > Can someone please provide more details here and also what steps
> needs to be done to upgrade to 9.3.10 level?
>
> Hello,
>
> You don't need pg_upgrade for minor version upgrades.  Please refer to
> the documentation: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/upgrading.html
>
> "Minor releases never change the internal storage format and are always
> compatible with earlier and later minor releases of the same major
> version number, e.g., 8.4.2 is compatible with 8.4, 8.4.1 and 8.4.6. To
> update between compatible versions, you simply replace the executables
> while the server is down and restart the server. The data directory
> remains unchanged — minor upgrades are that simple."

While that is the rule, there have been exceptions, one I could find:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/release-8-0-3.html

Per another post down thread, the prudent thing to do is to read the
Release Notes for each release.

>
> --
> Alex


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