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To: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
Cc: Pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: OS upgrade on postgres servers
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:14:48 +0530
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Pgdg repo
100Gb
Outage window - our decision. Client will accept our plan.
Postgres upgrade may or may not be needed. Need help on both the scenarios
On Tue, 17 Mar 2026, 00:41 Ron Johnson, <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 2:57 PM Raj <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have traditional servers with postgres with replication setup (primary
>> - standby). OS team want to upgrade from rhel 8.10 to 10.
>>
>> As a dba, what is the suggestion we need to give. How do we proceed ?
>> Should we stop the posygres servers? Should we get new servers with rhel 10
>> and migrate Data?
>>
>
> That's certainly a safe method.
>
>
>> What's the best procedure
>>
>
> The main problem is collation change driven by the newer glibc version.
>
> 1. How did you install PG (from the RHEL repository, or from the PGDG
> repository)?
> 2. How big are your databases?
> 3. How big is your outage window?
> 4. Do you plan on upgrading Postgresql at the same time?
>
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