I was recently updating my postgres from 9.5 to 9.6.2 (installed with home-brew, though the old binaries were downloaded from postgresql directly), and I encountered a strange problem. I have been following this guide, and everything went okay. I had to modify some commands as my encoding info was strange, but everything worked (modified commands listed below.)
initdb --local=C /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8 --lc-ctype=en_US.UTF-8
pg_upgrade -d /usr/local/var/postgres96 -D /usr/local/var/postgres -b /Users/MyUser/Downloads/pgsql/bin/ -B /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.6.2/bin/
Note: I moved the old data cluster to posgres96 before beginning the process.
However, none of the data transferred over. I ran du -sh /usr/local/var/*/
, and all of my data is still in postgres96, but none transferred over to the new cluster.
4.0K /usr/local/var/db/
80K /usr/local/var/homebrew/
48K /usr/local/var/log/
141M /usr/local/var/postgres/
386M /usr/local/var/postgres96/
0B /usr/local/var/run/
I re-ran everything, and noticed in the output of pg_upgrade
there was a weird anomaly.
Performing Consistency Checks
-----------------------------
Checking cluster versions ok
Checking database user is the install user ok
Checking database connection settings ok
Checking for prepared transactions ok
Checking for reg* system OID user data types ok
Checking for contrib/isn with bigint-passing mismatch ok
Checking for roles starting with 'pg_' ok
Creating dump of global objects ok
Creating dump of database schemas
ok
Checking for presence of required libraries ok
Checking database user is the install user ok
Checking for prepared transactions ok
If pg_upgrade fails after this point, you must re-initdb the
new cluster before continuing.
Performing Upgrade
------------------
Analyzing all rows in the new cluster ok
Freezing all rows on the new cluster ok
Deleting files from new pg_clog ok
Copying old pg_clog to new server ok
Setting next transaction ID and epoch for new cluster ok
Deleting files from new pg_multixact/offsets ok
Copying old pg_multixact/offsets to new server ok
Deleting files from new pg_multixact/members ok
Copying old pg_multixact/members to new server ok
Setting next multixact ID and offset for new cluster ok
Resetting WAL archives ok
Setting frozenxid and minmxid counters in new cluster ok
Restoring global objects in the new cluster ok
Restoring database schemas in the new cluster
ok
Copying user relation files
ok
Setting next OID for new cluster ok
Sync data directory to disk ok
Creating script to analyze new cluster ok
Creating script to delete old cluster ok
Upgrade Complete
It seems like the database schemas never got dumped? Regardless, all of my data is trapped in postgres96, and I can't get it out. Any help or insight would be appreciated.
Edit: I ended up just reinstalling an older postgres and dumping my data into the new server (which worked). I'd still be interested to know why pg_upgrade wasn't working though.