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

On Thu, Jan  4, 2018 at 01:49:17PM +0530, kiran gadamsetty wrote:
>     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. 
...
>     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

It appears the freeze operation is failing, and I have no idea what
would cause that.

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