Re: Major Version Upgradation in Replication Environment

On Thu, May  5, 2016 at 03:59:00PM +0200, Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> 2016-05-05 11:48 GMT+02:00 Vicky Soni - Quipment India <vicky.soni@quipment.nl>
> :
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>     Hello Friends,
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>                             We have a windows setup where we have 2 node
>     primary-slave setup which comprises Async Replication + Log Shippin on slave.
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>     Now we want to upgrade it from 9.3 to 9.4 version.
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>     Do we need to upgrade slave to 9.4, upgrade master to 9.4 and setup replication
>     again from scratch?
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>      
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> Just upgrade master to 9.4, install 9.4 on slave, and setup replication again.
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>     What are the best possible ways available to upgrade slave and master without
>     setting up replication again?
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> You can't.

Actually, the 9.5 pg_upgrade docs have in insructions on how upgrade a
slave without recreating the slave image, and it works back to 9.1:

    http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/pgupgrade.html
    Upgrade Streaming Replication and Log-Shipping standby servers

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