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PostgreSQL 13 Cookbook

You're reading from  PostgreSQL 13 Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838648138
Pages 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Vallarapu Naga Avinash Kumar Vallarapu Naga Avinash Kumar
Profile icon Vallarapu Naga Avinash Kumar
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters close

Preface 1. Cluster Management Fundamentals 2. Cluster Management Techniques 3. Backup and Recovery 4. Advanced Replication Techniques 5. High Availability and Automatic Failover 6. Connection Pooling and Load Balancing 7. Securing through Authentication 8. Logging and Analyzing PostgreSQL Servers 9. Critical Services Monitoring 10. Extensions and Performance Tuning 11. Upgrades and Patches 12. About Packt 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Major version upgrade to PostgreSQL 13 using pg_dumpall

We discussed logical backups and the purpose of pg_dumpall in Chapter 3, Backup and Recovery. pg_dumpall is the only utility that can perform a logical backup of the whole cluster. This backup includes globals (such as users or tablespaces) and databases. The same pg_dumpall can be used to dump the whole cluster from an older version and restore it into PostgreSQL 13. In this recipe, we shall discuss the steps involved in performing an upgrade from PostgreSQL 9.3 to PostgreSQL 13 using pg_dumpall.

Getting ready

In order to perform a logical backup of a cluster, we need to have sufficient space on the server. If the upgrade is being performed within the same server, then we need to make sure that we have at least three times the space of the existing database cluster (excluding the space required by WAL segments and log files).

As an example, if we have a PostgreSQL 9.3 cluster with a size of 100 GB, we should have the following:

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