Hi
I am trying to upgrade an exisitng Postgresql cluster from 9.1 to 9.5 on FreeBSD. pg_upgrade fails with the following error:
[Verbose Output: http://pastebin.com/YhR8vD03]
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$ /usr/local/bin/pg_upgrade -k -d /usr/local/pgsql/data91 -D /usr/local/pgsql/data --old-bindir=/var/tmp/pgbin.SPOsRj4D/bin --new-bindir=/usr/local/bin --check
*failure*
Consult the last few lines of "pg_upgrade_server.log" for
the probable cause of the failure.
pg_ctl failed to start the old server, or connection failed
Failure, exiting
$ cat pg_upgrade_server.log
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pg_upgrade run on Sat Jan 21 04:08:13 2017
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command: "/var/tmp/pgbin.SPOsRj4D/bin/pg_ctl" -w -l "pg_upgrade_server.log" -D "/usr/local/pgsql/data91" -o "-p 50432 -b -c listen_addresses='' -c unix_socket_permissions=0700 -c unix_socket_directory='/usr/local/pgsql'" start >> "pg_upgrade_server.log" 2>&1
waiting for server to start.... stopped waiting
pg_ctl: could not start server
Examine the log output.
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On checking the process list, the old postgres server seems to have started, but I am unable to connect to it using psql.
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$ ps auwwx |grep post
pgsql 26636 0.0 1.4 66960 14512 - Is 4:08AM 0:00.06 /var/tmp/pgbin.SPOsRj4D/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data91 -p 50432 -b -c listen_addresses= -c unix_socket_permissions=0700 -c unix_socket_directory=/usr/local/pgsql
pgsql 26638 0.0 1.4 66960 14516 - Ss 4:08AM 0:00.23 postgres: writer process (postgres)
pgsql 26639 0.0 1.4 66960 14516 - Ss 4:08AM 0:00.15 postgres: wal writer process (postgres)
pgsql 26640 0.0 0.9 26720 9568 - Ss 4:08AM 0:00.02 postgres: stats collector process (postgres)
$ psql -p 50432 -d template1
psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.50432"?
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If I run the pg_ctl command directly with just the minimum parameters, it still gives me an error, but seems to work correctly.
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$ /var/tmp/pgbin.SPOsRj4D/bin/pg_ctl -o "-p 50432 " -w -l "pg_upgrade_server.log" -D "/usr/local/pgsql/data91" start
waiting for server to start.... stopped waiting
pg_ctl: could not start server
Examine the log output.
$ cat pg_upgrade_server.log
$ psql -p 50432 -d template1
psql (9.5.5, server 9.1.20)
Type "help" for help.
template1=#
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Where am I going wrong?
Amitabh
Detailed steps that I followed for upgrade:
Since postgresql installed on FreeBSD through its ports/packages doesn't have version specific binaries or data directory till PG 9.5 (9.6 does have version specific data directory), use of pg_upgrade requires a little bit of work:
i) Stopped the current PG 9.1 instance. Renamed the data directory to data91 (under /usr/local/pgsql).
ii) Installed PG 9.1 binaries in a different location (/var/tmp/pgbin.SPOsRj4D/bin). Set owner and permission for pgsql user(default superuser in FreeBSD)
iii) Removed PG 9.1 installation from server & installed PG 9.5 in it's default location (under /usr/local/bin)
iv) Initiaized DB instance using initdb command (PG 9.5 data location is /usr/local/pgsql/data)
v) Ran the following command for upgrade check:
/usr/local/bin/pg_upgrade -k -d /usr/local/pgsql/data91 -D /usr/local/pgsql/data --old-bindir=/var/tmp/pgbin.SPOsRj4D/bin --new-bindir=/usr/local/bin --check --verbose
Output: http://pastebin.com/YhR8vD03
OS: FreeBSD 10.3 (running as virtualbox guest OS, host is Mac OS)
