On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Charles Sprickman <spork@biglist.com> wrote:
I just wanted to check if there are any updates on the preferred way to upgrade a group of servers that are using streaming replication with minimal downtime. <snip> * No good options to speed up the slave copy - rsync will either use timestamps to figure out if a file changed (and streaming skews that), or checksumming (and checksumming is slow). <snip> Is that still pretty much the situation today with 9.2 and 9.3?
Charles,
I am also concerned about upgrading our 9.2 servers which are set up using streaming replication. I would prefer not to copy the data over via rsync, since that is pretty time consuming. Does anybody know if there any other options to do an in-place upgrade?