Well thought it was maybe just going from 8.4.4 to 9.1.1 so upgraded to 8.4.9 and tried pg_upgrade again (this is 64bit) and it's failing -bash-4.0$ /tmp/pg_upgrade --check --old-datadir "/data/db" --new-datadir "/data1/db" --old-bindir "/ipix/pgsql/bin" --new-bindir "/ipix/pgsql9/bin" Performing Consistency Checks ----------------------------- Checking current, bin, and data directories ok Checking cluster versions ok Checking database user is a superuser 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 large objects ok There were problems executing "/ipix/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl" -w -l "/dev/null" -D "/data/db" stop >> "/dev/null" 2>&1 Failure, exiting I've read some re pg_migrator and issues with contribs, but wondered if there is something "Else" I need to know here Thanks again Tory -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance