pg_upgradecluster upgrades an existing PostgreSQL server cluster (i. e. a
collection of databases served by a postmaster instance) to a new version
specified by newversion (default: latest available version). The
configuration files of the old version are copied to the new cluster.
The cluster of the old version will be configured to use a previously unused
port since the upgraded one will use the original port. The old cluster is not
automatically removed. After upgrading, please verify that the new cluster
indeed works as expected; if so, you should remove the old cluster with
pg_dropcluster(8). Please note that the old cluster is set to ``manual''
startup mode, in order to avoid inadvertently changing it; this means that it
will not be started automatically on system boot, and you have to use
pg_ctlcluster(8) to start/stop it. See section ``STARTUP CONTROL'' in
pg_createcluster(8) for details.
The newdatadir argument can be used to specify a non-default data directory
of the upgraded cluster. It is passed to pg_createcluster. If not specified,
this defaults to /var/lib/postgresql/version/name.
Please note that this program cannot upgrade clusters which use tablespaces. If
you use those, you have to upgrade manually.
OPTIONS
-vnewversion
Set the version to upgrade to (default: latest available).
--locale=locale
Set the default locale for the upgraded database cluster. If this option is not
specified, the locale is inherited from the old cluster.
--lc-collate=locale
--lc-ctype=locale
--lc-messages=locale
--lc-monetary=locale
--lc-numeric=locale
--lc-time=locale
Like --locale, but only sets the locale in the specified category.
HOOK SCRIPTS
Some PostgreSQL extensions like PostGIS need metadata in auxiliary tables which
must not be upgraded from the old version, but rather initialized for the new
version before copying the table data. For this purpose, extensions (as well as
administrators, of course) can drop upgrade hook scripts into
/etc/postgresql-common/pg_upgradecluster.d/ . Script file names must consist
entirely of upper and lower case letters, digits, underscores, and hyphens; in
particular, dots (i. e. file extensions) are not allowed.
Scripts in that directory will be called with the following arguments:
A virgin cluster of version new version has been created, i. e. this new
cluster will already have template1, but no user databases. Please note that
you should not create tables in this phase, since they will be overwritten by
the dump/restore operation.
finish
All data from the old version cluster has been dumped/reloaded into the new
one. The old cluster still exists.
The scripts are called as the user who owns the database.