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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Sergey Konoplev <gray.ru@gmail.com>
Cc: Wells Oliver <wellsoliver@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2 - master AND slave
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 05:58:55 -0400
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On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 09:31:16PM -0700, Sergey Konoplev wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Wells Oliver <wellsoliver@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Following up to my earlier post: I have a master and a slave server (using
> > WAL), both 9.1. My 9.2 upgrade process is:
> >
> > 1) stop postgres on both servers
> > 2) run pg_upgrade --link on both servers
> > 3) change ports so 9.2 is on 5432, 9.1 on 5433
> > 4) restart
> >
> > Is this the best way to do it and ensure that the WAL is still being created
> > and the master/slave relationship properly maintained?
> 
> The problem is that after pg_upgrade the system catalog on the servers
> wont match. Therefore you need to rebuild your slave from scratch.
> 
> There were some ideas around rsync [1], however, nobody proved that
> they work appropriately.
> 
> [1] http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20120320204916.GB26163@momjian.us

Yes, though there was discussion about this at PGCon 2013 and I plan to
work on this for 9.4.

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