On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 10:32:22PM +0000, Julie Nishimura wrote:
> Hello, what is the best way to migrate from PostgreSQL 8.3.11 on
> x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu to PostgreSQL 9.6.16 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> server, with minimal downtime?
> The caveat is the source has about 80 databases overall almost 30
> TB. I could migrate the smallest ones (up to 1 tb) using pg_dump and
> pg_restore, but the largest hot database is almost 17 tb, and I am
> not sure how to approach this effort in a better and efficient way?
pg_upgrade could be one way to go here. That's not the scale pg_dump
would be very good at. I would have personally avoided using pg_dump
above 10~20GB. Depending on the downtime you are ready to accept,
a migration based on Slony could be something to investigate.
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Michael