I've tried the upgrade a few times, but I always get one type of failure or another. 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 warning | Your installation contains large objects. | The new database has an additional large object | permission table. After upgrading, you will be | given a command to populate the pg_largeobject | permission table with default permissions. Creating catalog dump ok There were problems executing "/usr/local/pgsql_84/bin/pg_ctl" -w -l "/dev/null" -D "data84" stop >> "/dev/null" 2>&1 Failure, exiting ========================================= 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 warning | Your installation contains large objects. | The new database has an additional large object | permission table. After upgrading, you will be | given a command to populate the pg_largeobject | permission table with default permissions. Creating catalog dump ok Checking for prepared transactions ok Checking for presence of required libraries ok | If pg_upgrade fails after this point, you must | re-initdb the new cluster before continuing. | You will also need to remove the ".old" suffix | from /home/postgres/data84/global/pg_control.old. Performing Upgrade ------------------ Adding ".old" suffix to old global/pg_control ok Analyzing all rows in the new cluster ok Freezing all rows on the new cluster ok Deleting new commit clogs ok Copying old commit clogs to new server ok Setting next transaction id for new cluster ok Resetting WAL archives ok Setting frozenxid counters in new cluster ok Creating databases in the new cluster ok Adding support functions to new cluster ok Restoring database schema to new cluster ok Removing support functions from new cluster ok Restoring user relation files Mismatch of relation names: database "dbname", old rel pg_toast.pg_toast_1280475, new rel pg_toast.pg_toast_1202320 Failure, exiting -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general