Re: Shortest offline window on database migration

Hello Steven,
Unfortunately logical replication is a pg10+ feature. One more reason for
upgrading from 9.6.10 :-)

Regards,
Haroldo Kerry

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 1:23 PM Haroldo Kerry <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Steven,
> Thanks a lot for the idea, it had not thought about it.
> @Joshua @Tomas, thanks for clarifying why it doesn't work!
>
> Best regards,
> Haroldo Kerry
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 12:54 PM Steven Winfield <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> >Has anyone been through this type of problem?
>> >
>>
>> You could set up a new, empty db (with checksums enabled, etc.) on the
>> new hardware and then use logical replication to sync across all the data
>> from the existing cluster.
>> (This logical replica could be doing binary replication to hot standbys
>> too, if you like).
>>
>> When the sync has finished you could perhaps gradually shift read-only
>> load over to the new db, and finally switch write load too - your downtime
>> would then be limited to how long this final cut-over takes.
>>
>> Steve.
>>
>>
>>
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