In this page, we have laid out the steps to upgrade postgres using
pg_dumpandpg_restoreThis is a generic document, which you can use to upgrade from any version of postgres to any other version
We also talk a bit about Azure postgres and some ways to ensure your services dont update the database during upgrade
This upgrade procedures requires a downtime
Sl No | Task | Command | Comments |
0 | Create a new postgres instance | Choose postgres version 10 (preferably 11 ) and above and same configuration as per existing instance on Azure You are free to have independent instances or a single instance for all services as per your need Whitelist all the IP's as per existing postgres Test the connection by connecting to the instance from jenkins If on VM, create a new VM (preferably Ubuntu 18 and above) and run the Postgres provision role. Note: This document does not cover details on how to upgrade postgres on the same / exisiting VM. Feel free to contribute the steps to this document. | New instance of same configuration should be created. We have used Postgres version 11 |
1 | Update the inventory | Search and update all the variables in Replace the postgres instance address, postgres user and postgres password with the new details If you are on a VM, use the new VM IP along with username and password | It will be simpler if you use same username and password for all dbs on the postgres instance. If you want to use different user name and password for each database on an instance, then you need to ensure you create those users and roles before hand by running provision jobs against your postgres instance or do them manually. This document does not cover how to restore user accounts. For that you can refer to Azure docs or postgres documentation. Below is one such link - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/postgresql/how-to-upgrade-using-dump-and-restore |
2 | Start of down time Stop traffic / services | Stop traffic Put Jenkins into maintenance mode so nobody can deploy any jobs Cut off connection to postgres from all services except Jenkins (In azure remove all connecting subnets except Jenkins, disable Azure services connections also) In VM you have multiple ways - Disable outside connections by editing List of services that are going to be affected - - Analytics - APIManager - Druid - ENC - fusionauth - gql - Hawkeye Superset - Inbound - InternalKong - Keycloak - Learner - LMS - odk - Orchestrator - Outbound - Report - Superset - Transformer - UCI | Respective services should be stopped / Postgres reachability should be removed Traffic can be stopped based on situation by removing nginx daemonset or changing nginx service port mapping to something else from 80 / 443 |
3 | Manually list all the DB's first | export PG_HOST="" # Enter the postgres host inside the quotes export PG_USER="" # Enter the postgres user inside the quotes export PGPASSWORD="" # Enter the postgres password inside the quotes psql -h $PG_HOST -U $PG_USER -d postgres -c "\l" | All DB should be listed |
4 | Run command to get all the DB's on terminal and store in a file | mkdir $PG_HOST-$(date +'%s') && cd $PG_HOST-$(date +'%s')
psql -h $PG_HOST -U $PG_USER -d postgres -c "\l" | awk 'NR>3{print $1}'| grep -v "|\|(\|^$\|template0\|template1\|azure_maintenance\|postgres\|azure_sys" | tee -a dbs.txt
| Verify all db are present in the file and matches our db's |
5 | Take backup of the DB's from current instance | while read -r line; do echo "Dumping DB $line" && pg_dump -Fd -j PG_CPU_CORES -h $PG_HOST -U $PG_USER -d $line -f $line; done < dbs.txt | Replace |
6 | Get count of all tables from all DB's from current instance | while read -r line; do psql -h $PG_HOST -U $PG_USER -d $line -c "\dt" | awk -F "|" 'NF {print $2}' | tr -d ' ' | awk 'NF' | tail -n +2 | tee -a $line-tables.txt; done < dbs.txt
while read -r line; do while read -r inline; do echo $inline | tee -a $line-table-count.txt && psql -h $PG_HOST -U $PG_USER -d $line -c "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM \"$inline\"" | tee -a $line-table-count.txt; done < $line-tables.txt; done < dbs.txt
| All tables and counts will be displayed and also written into the files Repeat Steps 3 - 6 for every postgres instance (in case you are running the workload on separate instances) |
7 | Rearrange the DBs across two instances or based on your requirement | In this case, we will be creating the following databases across two instances Instance 1 - Keycloak, Public Kong, Private Kong, Quartz, Enc Keys Feel free to add any other dbs you have / want to. This is not an exhaustive list Create two directories as below mkdir pg11 mkdir pg11-dp cd pg11 touch dbs.txt Add the required db names in the file Move all the required backup folders and files to this directory. Below is a sample command mv old_pg_backup_folder/api_manager_loadtest_kong14* pg11 Similarly do for the other dbs and pg11-db folder also (second instance) cd pg11-dp touch dbs.txt Add the required db names in the file If you are going to use only once instance, then you can move all the backup data and other files under a single directory | Instance 1: cat pg11/dbs.txt api_manager_loadtest_kong14 keycloak7 quartz api_manager_internal loadtest-keys ls -lrth pg11 api_manager_internal api_manager_internal-table-count.txt api_manager_internal-tables.txt api_manager_loadtest_kong14 api_manager_loadtest_kong14-table-count.txt api_manager_loadtest_kong14-tables.txt keycloak7 keycloak7-table-count.txt keycloak7-tables.txt loadtest-keys loadtest-keys-table-count.txt loadtest-keys-tables.txt quartz quartz-table-count.txt quartz-tables.txt dbs.txt Instance 2: cat pg11-dp/dbs.txt analytics druid-raw graphite superset ls -lrth pg11-dp analytics analytics-table-count.txt analytics-tables.txt druid-raw druid-raw-table-count.txt druid-raw-tables.txt graphite graphite-table-count.txt graphite-tables.txt superset superset-tables.txt dbs.txt |
8 | Install postgres 11 tools | sudo apt install postgresql-client-11 | If you to use
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9 | Create empty databases in new instance | export PG_HOST="" # Enter the new postgres host inside the quotes export PG_USER="" # Enter the new postgres user inside the quotes export PGPASSWORD="" # Enter the new postgres password inside the quotes psql -h $PG_HOST -U $PG_USER -d postgres -c "\l" while read -r line; do echo "Creating DB $line" && psql -h $PG_HOST -U $PG_USER -d postgres -c "CREATE DATABASE $line"; done < dbs.txt psql -h $PG_HOST -U $PG_USER -d postgres -c "\l" | Empty databases should be created on new postgres instance Note: Add double quotes in Creating DB loadtest-keys ERROR: syntax error at or near "-" LINE 1: CREATE DATABASE loadtest-keys |
10 | Restore the DB's to the new instance | while read -r line; do echo "Restoring DB $line" && pg_restore -O -j PG_CPU_CORES -h $PG_HOST -U $PG_USER -d $line $line; done < dbs.txt | Replace Note: Remove double quotes in Restoring DB "uci-botdb" pg_restore: [archiver] could not open input file ""uci-botdb"": No such file or directory Ignore errors like ERROR: role "postgres" does not exist
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 5; 2615 2200 SCHEMA public azure_superuser
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: schema "public" already exists
Command was: CREATE SCHEMA public;
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 3728; 0 0 ACL SCHEMA public azure_superuser
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: role "postgres" does not exist
Command was: GRANT ALL ON SCHEMA public TO postgres;
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11 | Analyze the db's on new instance | while read -r line; do psql -h $PG_HOST -U $PG_USER -d $line -c "ANALYZE VERBOSE"; done < dbs.txt | Verbose logs will be displayed |
12 | Get count of all tables from all DB's from new instance | while read -r line; do while read -r inline; do echo $inline | tee -a $line-table-count-new.txt && psql -h $PG_HOST -U $PG_USER -d $line -c "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM \"$inline\"" | tee -a $line-table-count-new.txt; done < $line-tables.txt; done < dbs.txt | All tables and counts will be displayed and also written into the files |
13 | Compare the row counts of both the instances | while read -r line; do echo "Diff of $line-table-count.txt and $line-table-count-new.txt" && diff $line-table-count.txt $line-table-count-new.txt; done < dbs.txt | This will not display any output. Which means files are identical If there are differences use the below to compare and then take fresh backup and restore those dbs again |
14 | Remove all connections to old Postgres | Remove all subnets and enable deny public network acces on Azure portal If on VM, stop the VM / postgres service | To ensure no service can connect to old DBs |
15 | Clear offline session from Keycloak DB | truncate offline_client_session truncate offline_user_session | If we have too many rows in these tables, keycloak will not start |
16 | End of down time Redeploy services / Enable Traffic | Redeploy the follwing services under - Analytics - APIManager - Provision/DataPipeline/Druid (Choose all in service except java) - ENC - fusionauth - gql - HawkeyeSuperset - Inbound - Deploy/atapipeline/InternalKong - Keycloak - Learner - LMS - odk - Orchestrator - Outbound - Report - Superset - Transformer - UCI | The configmaps and configuration files will be updated with new data. Do verify it by checking them manually for all these services. |