Hello,
For some reason, my first attempt to send this email to the list didn't get through ....
We have several independent database
servers with ~50GB+ databases running postgres 8.0.x. We are planning
to upgrade these databases to postgres 8.2.x over the weekend
We plan to use the following steps to upgrade each server,
1. Dump the 8.0.x database cluster using 8.2.x pg_dumpall
% ./pg_dumpall > pgdumpall_backup.sql
2.Dump the 8.0.x database including large objects in compressed custom format using 8.2.x pg_dump
% ./pg_dump -Fc -b -Z9 dbname > pgdump_lobs_backup
Restoring database
1. Initialize 8.2.x darabase
% initdb -D /data/pgdata
2. Restore template1 database from cluster dump
% ./psql -d template1 < pgdumpall_backup.sql
3. Delete database dbname else restoring will give error about existing dbname
% dropdb dbname
4. Create fresh dbname
% createdb -O dbowner dbname
5. Restore database with lobs
% ./pg_restore -v -Fc -d dbname -e -U dbowner < pgdumpall_lobs_backup
Some of the problems we have are,
1. We are not sure if all of the data will be available after dump/restore with above process
2.
The dump and restore process is very very slow to be complete over the
weekend (takes approx 1GB/hr to dump on a dual G5 PPC 2Ghz with 1GB RAM
and RAID 1 disks)
What is the fastest way to upgrade postgres for large databases that has binary objects?
Thanks for all your help.
