Re: Upgrading using pg_dumpall

On Sat, 3 Sep 2016, Adrian Klaver wrote:

> Once you verify that the new instance is running and you can connect to it
> then:

   Shut down 9.3.4 using pg_ctl stop as user postgres. Started 9.5.4 as user
postgres using 'pg_ctl start /var/lib/pgsql/9.5/data &'.

> psql -U some_user -d postgres -p 5442 -f your_dumpall.sql

   In /tmp there's only
.s.PGSQL.5432=
.s.PGSQL.5432.lock
and since only 9.5.4 is now running that port should be available.

   The above command failed when run as both me (as user owning/granted all
privileges on all databases) and as superuser postgres.

Rich