Re: Pg Upgrade failing as it is not able to start and stop server properly

Hi All,

Any help on this issue?

Regards,
Kiran G

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 3:03 PM, kiran gadamsetty <
kirankumar(dot)gadamsetty(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> While upgrading the PostgreSQL database from 9.1.4 to 9.6.4 version on
> windows 2012 server, Pg_upgrade is failing as postgre service start and
> stop are failing because of time outs. I got the information as using -m
> immediate mode with solve the problem, but we are interested to know the
> root cause of this issue.
> Without -m immediate, the server start and stop commands will simply wait,
> till command timeouts and they fail.
> There is no load on the server that could cause a performance issue.
>
> Below is the failure snippet from pg_upgrade_internal.log file.
>
>
> Checking for presence of required libraries ok
> Checking database user is the install user executing:
> SELECT rolsuper, oid FROM pg_catalog.pg_roles WHERE rolname = current_user
> AND rolname !~ '^pg_'
> executing: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pg_catalog.pg_roles WHERE rolname !~ '^pg_'
> ok
> Checking for prepared transactions executing:
> SELECT * FROM pg_catalog.pg_prepared_xacts
> ok
>
> If pg_upgrade fails after this point, you must re-initdb the
> new cluster before continuing.
>
> Performing Upgrade
> ------------------
> Analyzing all rows in the new cluster
> "c:\EMC\AppSync\jboss\datastore_96\engine\bin/vacuumdb" --port 50432
> --username ^"apollosuperuser^" --all --analyze --verbose >>
> "pg_upgrade_utility.log" 2>&1
> ok
> Freezing all rows on the new cluster
> "c:\EMC\AppSync\jboss\datastore_96\engine\bin/vacuumdb" --port 50432
> --username ^"apollosuperuser^" --all --freeze --verbose >>
> "pg_upgrade_utility.log" 2>&1
>
> *failure*
> "c:\EMC\AppSync\jboss\datastore_96\engine\bin/pg_ctl" -w -D
> "c:\EMC\AppSync\jboss\datastore_96\data" -o "" -m fast stop >>
> "pg_upgrade_utility.log" 2>&1
>
>
>
> Below are the pg_upgrade logs pertaining to the failure. Please suggest
> any solutions to fix this issue.
>
> Regards,
> Kiran G
>
>