Re: BUG #15376: Postgres sql 9.4.19 pg_upgrade stops with error Thesource cluster was not shut down cleanly.

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 09:30:28AM +0530, kalyani kaniganti wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
> Thanks for the immediate reply.
> We are using pg_ctl command to shutdown the old server with no option.In this
> case the pg_ctl will consider as smart shutdown if no option is specified as
> per documentation .
> please find bellow command.
> <new path for data dir>/bin/pg_ctl -D <olddata dir path> stop 

Yes, this should be fine.

> We are using the same script for multiple releases in Postgres sql to upgrade
> the database from 9.1 to 9.4 .
> Same script is working fine in 9.4.17 version, while upgrading DB from 9.1 to
> 9.4.17.

OK.

> From the release notes of 9.4.19 version we did not find any changes done on
> pg_upgrade except one bug fix related to pg_upgrade has been fixed.
> Do we have to add in our code to check for graceful shutdown or we have to wait
> for the next release?
> Please let us know if you have any workaround till the next minor patch is
> released.

Well, there is nothing pending in the next beta except a better error
message text.  Can you show me the commands and the error you are
getting.  The system is looking at the output from:

    $ pg_controldata $PGDATA

The "Database cluster state:" must be "shut down" before running
pg_upgrade.

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