Another question, when I get a reply from the list, to which email should I then reply? To all? the User posting, or pgsql-admin@? thanks On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Craig James <cjames@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Sergey Konoplev <gray.ru@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 05:55:05PM -0500, Antoine Guidi wrote: >>>>> Is it possible to do a pg_upgrade from 9.1.2 to 9.1.5 just >>>>> using pg_upgrade? For what I could read, the only exception >>>>> would be if I was using a citext column (which I am not). >>>> >>>> You cannot use pg_upgrade for this. > > "Cannot" or "don't need to"? > >>>> You just need to stop the server, install the binaries, and >>>> restart the server. >>> >>> AFAIU it is not necessary to stop the server when updating >>> binaries if one is not going to create extensions, PLs or >>> anything else that will be dynamically linked after the binaries >>> update and before the server restart. >>> >>> So with the process >>> >>> 1. update binaries >>> 2. postgres restart >>> >>> the downtime will be shorter. >> >> I'm just guessing, but this is probably a bad idea. This could >> happen... >> >> 1. Postgres master and a bunch of clients are running >> >> 2. You start updating binaries >> >> 3. In the middle of your update, an new client connects and a new >> backend process starts. >> >> 4. The 9.1.2 executable links to the 9.1.5 binaries. Or a 9.1.5 >> executable links to the 9.1.2 libraries. Or a 9.1.5 executable >> starts with the right binaries, but is talking to a 9.1.2 >> postmaster process, which might not have the same shared-memory >> map. Or ... >> >> ... and so forth. > > That's why we put each minor release into a separate location. > > 1. PostgreSQL master and a bunch of clients are running against > executables deployed with a prefix of /usr/local/pgsql-9.1.4. The > prefix is specified in the service script for the server; clients > use a symlink at /usr/local/pgsql. > > 2. We make and install a new build with prefix > /usr/local/pgsql-9.1.5. > > 3. We change the symlink to point to the new build. > > 4. We change the appropriate service script(s) to point to the new > prefix. > > 5. We stop and then start the server(s). (We don't use pg_ctl > restart because that seems to stay on the same prefix.) > > 6. Later, when we confirm that nothing is still referencing the old > prefix, we remove its subdirectory. > > PostgreSQL is down only for the time it takes for a restart. We > normally do this during off-hours; but even if this is done during > normal operations, properly coded clients (which retry a database > transaction if it fails with a broken connection, without giving the > client any error) only see a short stutter in response time. > > -Kevin > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
