Yes, but only during the migration. After fi ishing and checking your data, you can stop & destroy the old instance
Of course, this is only needed if you want a zero or little downtime migration, specially on production environment.
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---- Debraj Manna wrote ----
I am using one node postgres.
So if I am setting up pglogical then I guess disk space will double up?
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On Nov 25, 2017 9:34 AM, "Alvaro Aguayo Garcia-Rada" <
aaguayo@opensysperu.com> wrote:
> You can do an (almost) zero downtime migration between any postgres
> version starting with 9.2 using pglogical.
>
> Basically, you first set up your new instance as a full replica of the old
> one. Then, you change whatever configuration your app has, changing the
> connection parameters so they point to the new instance, reboot your app(s)
> if needed, and that's all. As pglogical does not blocks changes on slaves,
> your app will run normally even with pglogical installed and active,
> letting you a time frame where you can have some connections still
> pointing to your old instance, with changes made on such connections being
> reflected on your new instance(warning: the opposite way will not happen.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alvaro Aguayo
> Jefe de Operaciones
> Open Comb Systems E.I.R.L.
>
> Oficina: (+51-1) 3377813 | RPM: #034252 / (+51) 995540103 | RPC: (+51)
> 954183248
> Website: www.ocs.pe
>
> Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone
>
> ---- Debraj Manna wrote ----
>
>
> Cross posting from stack-exchange
>
>
> *I am trying to test the migration of postgres to 10 from 9.5*
>
> *On trying in a test DB of size 490 GB in one postgres node it is taking
> about 18 mins. The command I used*
>
> *sudo -H -u postgres /usr/lib/postgresql/10/bin/pg_upgrade \*
> * -b /usr/lib/postgresql/9.5/bin \*
> * -B /usr/lib/postgresql/10/bin \*
> * -d /var/lib/postgresql/data/postgresql0 \*
> * -D /var/lib/postgresql/10/data/postgresql0 \*
> * -o ' -c config_file=/etc/postgresql/9.5/main/postgresql.conf' \*
> * -O ' -c config_file=/etc/postgresql/10/main/postgresql.conf' -k *
>
> *Is there any faster way of doing this?*
>