Re: RHEL certified repo provided PostgreSQL Major Version Upgrade.

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Sameer Malve <malvesameer(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Sameer Malve <sameer(dot)malve(at)mobileum(dot)com>
Subject: Re: RHEL certified repo provided PostgreSQL Major Version Upgrade.
Date: 2024-10-10 06:33:25
Message-ID: 35e0128148572d2dadfbda0fe748dcac988d3722.camel@cybertec.at
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On Thu, 2024-10-10 at 11:52 +0530, Sameer Malve wrote:
> I have few questions.
>
> 1. As I have observed, the PostgreSQL upgrade package has only the lower
> major version binaries. So what if I want to upgrade from PG 13 to PG 16?

That works just the same.

> 2. If upgrade fails then what are the rollback steps. Do you know if it is documented somewhere? 

If you didn't use the --link option of pg_upgrade, you can simply fall back to
the old cluster.

If you used --link, you will have to restore your backup (or promote a standby
server that you prepared for this eventuality).

See the pg_upgrade documentation.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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