https://cetyler.github.io/tags/pg_dumpall/Recent content in Pg_dumpall on Christopher TylerHugoen-usSun, 10 Nov 2024 14:57:40 -0600https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2024/2024-11-11-pgupgrade/Sun, 10 Nov 2024 14:26:17 -0600https://cetyler.github.io/posts/2024/2024-11-11-pgupgrade/<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2> <p>At work I needed to upgrade from PostgreSQL from 15 to 17. The process is not that different than upgrading in Ubuntu but there were a couple of items that threw me off.</p> <h2 id="perform-backup">Perform Backup</h2> <p>This should be done prior to the update in case something goes wrong:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-powershell" data-lang="powershell"><span style="display:flex;"><span>CTyler@CTYLER_NB <span style="color:#960050;background-color:#1e0010"></span> C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\<span style="color:#ae81ff">17</span>\bin <span style="color:#960050;background-color:#1e0010"></span> [<span style="color:#ae81ff">08</span><span style="color:#960050;background-color:#1e0010">:</span><span style="color:#ae81ff">22</span>] </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#960050;background-color:#1e0010">❯</span> &amp; <span style="color:#e6db74">&#39;C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\17\bin\pg_dumpall.exe&#39;</span> -p <span style="color:#ae81ff">5432</span> -U postgres <span style="color:#f92672">-f</span> D:\Backups\postgresql-ctyler_nb-<span style="color:#ae81ff">20241107</span>-<span style="color:#ae81ff">1</span>.out </span></span></code></pre></div><p>This was based on the documentation <a href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pg-dumpall.html">PostgreSQL: Documentation: 17: pg_dumpall</a>.</p> <p><strong>Note</strong> keep in mind that you should create a <code>pgpass.conf</code> (or <code>.pgpass</code> for Linux):</p>