Re: BUG #16131: pg_upgrade 9 -> 11.6 and a database is missing - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 04:58:28PM -0700, jedwa@comcast.net wrote:
> It only happened on one system and it was a 9.2. I've done three other test
> systems (9.2 and 9.3 to 11.6 now) and one of the production and not seen it
> again.
> I would have to ask for time to roll the system back and try it again, and
> in my company's brilliance (as a contractor) I'll be furloughed in a day til
> after New Year's.
> I would love to figure this out, but if you haven't seen it from anyone else
> I'm guessing it was a one time oddity. 

Yeah, it is hard to justify a rollback.

> Did I send you the logs? (I didn't see anything in them)

NO.

> If they will let me I might use my own time to rollback and try again and
> will let you know.

OK, thanks.  I just can't imagine how this would skip an entire
database.

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> Thanks,
> Jed
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 4:54 PM
> To: jedwa@comcast.net; pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: BUG #16131: pg_upgrade 9 -> 11.6 and a database is missing
> 
> 
> Sorry for the late reply, but I have no idea what would cause this.  I don't
> think the 11.5->11.6 changes would have.  Is there any chance you can re-run
> the upgrade to test if it happens again?
> 
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> 
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 07:01:07PM +0000, PG Bug reporting form wrote:
> > The following bug has been logged on the website:
> > 
> > Bug reference:      16131
> > Logged by:          Jed Walker
> > Email address:      jedwa@comcast.net
> > PostgreSQL version: 11.6
> > Operating system:   CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core)
> > Description:        
> > 
> > I did an upgrade of two matching servers, one from 9.2 -> 11.5 and had 
> > no problems, but yesterday I did the other 9.2 -> 11.6 and a database 
> > and user were missing from the upgraded database.
> > 
> > I saw no errors, other than the unix_socket_directories issue, but one 
> > of our databases is not in the new 11 server. We had a similar system 
> > with the same databases that I upgraded a week ago and all databases came
> across.
> > There is no reference to this database in the upgrade logs. 
> > The key difference between the system that I did previously that 
> > worked and this is that the one that worked was 9.2 -> 11.5, and this 
> > was 9.2 -> 11.6
> > 
> > Upgrade process:
> > yum install -y
> > https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/EL-7-x86_64/pgd
> > g-redhat-repo-latest.noarch.rpm
> > yum install -y postgresql11
> > yum install -y postgresql11-server
> > shutdown -r now
> > systemctl stop postgresql
> > /usr/pgsql-11/bin/postgresql-11-setup initdb 
> > /usr/pgsql-11/bin/pg_upgrade -v -r -d /var/lib/pgsql/data -D 
> > /var/lib/pgsql/11/data -b "/usr/bin" -B "/usr/pgsql-11/bin"
> > systemctl disable postgresql
> > systemctl enable postgresql-11
> > systemctl start postgresql-11
> > ~/analyze_new_cluster.sh
> > 
> > These are the databases, after upgrade database wasp and user 
> > wasp_user were missing.
> > postgres=# \l
> >                                    List of databases
> >    Name    |   Owner   | Encoding |   Collate   |    Ctype    |    Access
> > privileges    
> > -----------+-----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-------
> > -----------+-----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-------
> > -----------+-----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-------
> > -----------+-----------+----------+-------------+-------------+----
> >  nasdb     | nasuser   | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | 
> >  postgres  | postgres  | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | 
> >  template0 | postgres  | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
> =c/postgres 
> >           +
> >            |           |          |             |             |
> > postgres=CTc/postgres
> >  template1 | postgres  | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
> > postgres=CTc/postgres  +
> >            |           |          |             |             |
> > =c/postgres
> >  wasp      | wasp_user | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
> > =Tc/wasp_user          +
> >            |           |          |             |             |
> > wasp_user=CTc/wasp_user
> > 
> > The users are using the system, but I'd be happy to send logs etc.
> > 
> 
> 
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