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PG_UPGRADECLUSTER(8)   Debian PostgreSQL infrastructure	  PG_UPGRADECLUSTER(8)

NAME
       pg_upgradecluster - upgrade an existing PostgreSQL cluster to a new
       major version.

SYNOPSIS
       pg_upgradecluster [-v newversion] version name [newdatadir]

DESCRIPTION
       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
       -v newversion
	   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:

       <old version> <cluster name> <new version> <phase>

       Phases:

       init
	   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.

SEE ALSO
       pg_createcluster(8), pg_dropcluster(8), pg_lsclusters(1), pg_wrapper(1)

AUTHOR
       Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>

Debian				  2012-09-21		  PG_UPGRADECLUSTER(8)
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