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Problems executing pg_ctl during pg_upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1 on Windows

I'm trying to upgrade my 9.0 PSQL to 9.1 on Windows Server 2003. I've installed 9.1, stopped both services, and generally followed all steps on this guide. When I actually run the command, however, I ...
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Upgrade production database during software development lifecycle

Background Using Oracle, there are a number of tools that help with migrating and applying development changes into the production environment (such as Embarcadero Change Manager). These tools can be ...
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“Zero” downtime and minimal space requirements for upgrade to PostgreSQL 9.2

Need to migrate from PostgreSQL 8.3.x to 9.2 Constraint 1: 8.4 and above have made datetime format to be integer by default. Wasn't so in 8.3.x. As a result pg_upgrade can't be used. Unless server is ...
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How to wait for PostgreSQL to be startable / restorable?

I'm testing a PostgreSQL 8.2.1 to 9.2 upgrade on a virtual machine running a custom Linux distro. The upgrade procedure is as follows: Start the pg service Vacuum all DBs (not sure if this is ...
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Postgresql: what to do about upgrading “main” cluster from 8.4 to 9.1 when a 9.1 “main” already exists?

I have an existing 8.4 cluster (named main) that I want to upgrade to 9.1. However, when I go to upgrade it, I get an error because 9.1 already has a cluster named main (apparently a default cluster ...
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postgresql dump and load — need to dump “postgres” db also?

If I pg_dump a db from an 8.4 cluster, and then load it into a different 9.1 cluster, do I need to pg_dump and restore the 'postgres' db as well? (I'm not familiar with what is contained in the ...
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How do I copy databases from Postgres 8.4 to Postgres 9.1?

My trac server recently started having issues. It was running a very outdated version of Ubuntu, and I was unable to properly use apt-get to correct the issues I was having. So instead I backed up the ...
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PostgreSQL memory spike upgrade from 8.2 to 9.1

We recently upgraded a few of our development computers from PostgreSQL 8.2 to 9.1, with plans on eventually upgrading our production servers. Everything seems well with the restore of the databases, ...
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Upgrade Postgres without doing a pg_dumpall

I'm upgrading from postgres 8.4 to 9.0 and looking at the manual it looks like this is my only choice: pg_dumpall -p 5432 | psql -d postgres -p 6543 Which means I'll need to stop any writes to the ...
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pg_upgrade fails with an unspecified error

I’m running Postgres 9.1’s pg_ugrade to migrate from 9.0 to 9.1 on Windows x64. After editing the permissions to allow full trust, running the tool as the postgres user, and working around a bug ...
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Upgrade postgres without messing with ports?

The standard procedure for upgrading Postgres appears to require that I temporarily run both the old and the new version. This means that I have to change the port of the old version. This seems ...
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Any Idea how to migrate from PostgresSQL 8.4 to PostgresSQL 9.1.1 in opensuse12.1

I had a crashed opensuse 11.3 that's why I installed opensuse 12.1.. after I installed (via yast) and edited /etc/passwd I do this: rcpostgresql start and this shows on the /var/log/messeges ~ ...
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PostgreSQL: 8.3/8.4 interface chages?

I would like to upgrade a PostgreSQL 8.3 server to PostrgreSQL 8.4. There are many software components that interact with the server over the network, and I am concerned with compatibility issues. Is ...