Re: Issue upgrading from 9.5 to 13 with pg_upgrade: "connection to database failed: FATAL: database "template1" does not exist"

> On Nov 13, 2020, at 11:06 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com> wrote:
>
> When you manually run the pg_upgrade pg_ctl script the server starts but you cannot connect to any database in it
correct?

Yes.

> What does pg_upgrade_server.log show when you do above?

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  pg_upgrade run on Fri Nov 13 10:11:45 2020
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command: "/usr/pgsql-9.5/bin/pg_ctl" -w -l "pg_upgrade_server.log" -D "/var/lib/pgsql/9.5/data" -o "-p 54320 -b  -c
listen_addresses=''-c unix_socket_permissions=0700 -c unix_socket_directories='/var/run/postgresql'" start >>
"pg_upgrade_server.log"2>&1 
waiting for server to start....2020-11-13 10:11:46 EST [204620]: [1-1] user=,db=,app=,client= LOG:  ending log output
tostderr 
2020-11-13 10:11:46 EST [204620]: [2-1] user=,db=,app=,client= HINT:  Future log output will go to log destination
"syslog".
 done
server started


command: "/usr/pgsql-9.5/bin/pg_ctl" -w -D "/var/lib/pgsql/9.5/data" -o "" -m smart stop >> "pg_upgrade_server.log"
2>&1
waiting for server to shut down.... done
server stopped


command: "/usr/pgsql-13/bin/pg_ctl" -w -l "pg_upgrade_server.log" -D "/var/lib/pgsql/13/data" -o "-p 5432 -b -c
synchronous_commit=off-c fsync=off -c full_page_writes=off -c vacuum_defer_cleanup_age=0  -c listen_addresses='' -c
unix_socket_permissions=0700-c unix_socket_directories='/var/run/postgresql'" start >> "pg_upgrade_server.log" 2>&1 
waiting for server to start....2020-11-13 10:11:54.944 EST [204724] LOG:  redirecting log output to logging collector
process
2020-11-13 10:11:54.944 EST [204724] HINT:  Future log output will appear in directory "log".
 done
server started


command: "/usr/pgsql-13/bin/pg_ctl" -w -D "/var/lib/pgsql/13/data" -o "" -m smart stop >> "pg_upgrade_server.log" 2>&1
waiting for server to shut down....................... done
server stopped


command: "/usr/pgsql-13/bin/pg_ctl" -w -l "pg_upgrade_server.log" -D "/var/lib/pgsql/13/data" -o "-p 5432 -b -c
synchronous_commit=off-c fsync=off -c full_page_writes=off -c vacuum_defer_cleanup_age=0  -c listen_addresses='' -c
unix_socket_permissions=0700-c unix_socket_directories='/var/run/postgresql'" start >> "pg_upgrade_server.log" 2>&1 
waiting for server to start....2020-11-13 10:12:15.902 EST [204782] LOG:  redirecting log output to logging collector
process
2020-11-13 10:12:15.902 EST [204782] HINT:  Future log output will appear in directory "log".
 done
server started


command: "/usr/pgsql-13/bin/pg_ctl" -w -D "/var/lib/pgsql/13/data" -o "" -m fast stop >> "pg_upgrade_server.log" 2>&1
waiting for server to shut down.... done
server stopped