Re: pg_upgrade from 9.5 to 9.6 fails with "invalid argument"

Adrian Klaver schrieb am 29.09.2016 um 22:55:
>> After running a "vacuum full" on the table in question the upgrade goes
>> through.
>
> Assuming you did that on old cluster?

Yes, correct. I did that on the 9.5 cluster

> Where both clusters installed the same way?

Yes.

I always download the ZIP Archive from http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgbindownload then run
initdbmanually. 

Both were initialized using:

    initdb -D "..."  --lc-messages=English -U postgres --pwfile=pwfile.txt -E UTF8 -A md5

> What was the complete command line invocation of pg_upgrade?

That was in a batch file:

set LC_MESSAGES=English

set oldbin=c:\Programme\PostgreSQL\9.5\bin
set newbin=c:\Programme\PostgreSQL\9.6\bin
"%newbin%\pg_upgrade" ^
   --username=postgres ^
   --old-bindir="%oldbin%" ^
   --new-bindir="%newbin%" ^
   --old-datadir=d:/Daten/db/pgdata95 ^
   --new-datadir=d:/Daten/db/pgdata96 ^
   --retain ^
   --verbose ^
   --old-port=5432 ^
   --new-port=5433