Postgres Upgrade from 9.1 to 9.3 and post-upgrade configs (draft notes)

Environment: Postgres 9.1 running on Ubuntu 13.04 on AWS EC2 instance with a single cluster on AWS EBS

Some pre-steps can be found here:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Using_pg_upgrade_on_Ubuntu/Debian

Get details of the present clusters:

Stop all Postgres services:

Drop new 9.3 cluster created by default during installation of postgres 9.3:

Create a new 9.3 cluster from existing 9.1 one:

Check if it worked:

Make sure you can access your data: if ok – drop 9.1 cluster:


All steps below are optional: Move data storage to an alternative location
In my case it’s an instance of Amazon EBS (Elastic Storage) mounted to /data/main

Stop all Postgres services:

Move actual directory :

Amend 9.3 configs:

Comment out old data_directory path and point it to the new location:

Check if it worked:

Start postgres:

Optional – remove /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/main created by default during 9.3 installation: