This post started off as a database move but a software upgrade got in the way.
I tried this move before, but failed to notice that the cvs-all subscription was not correct. This was a combination of DNS and subscription issues. They are now fixed.
Let us try moving the database now.
$ time pg_dump freshports.org | gzip > freshports.sql.gz real 21m29.016s user 5m41.054s sys 0m14.680s
While that was going on, I noticed the production server was running PostgreSQL 8.2. I upgraded the client and server to the latest versions of 8.2:
portupgrade postgresql-client postgresql-server
Then I upgraded the client to 8.3 (note: client, not server):
portupgrade -o databases/postgresql83-client postgresql-client
Then I dumped the production databases from the 8.2 server using the 8.3 client:
pg_dumpall -f dumpall.sql
I then upgraded the server:
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql stop portupgrade -o databases/postgresql83-server postgresql-server
When that was done, I moved the old PostgreSQL data directory out of the way, so I could do an initdb, and then start the production server.
cd /usr/local/pgsql mv data data.8.2.9 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql initdb /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql start
I also upgraded the docs and contrib modules:
portupgrade postgresql-contrib postgresql-docs
The database loading was simple:
su - pgsql psql -f dumpall.sql postgres
That has the PostgreSQL server upgraded to 8.3.3.
Now for installing the latest version of the FreshPorts database:
$ time psql -f freshports.sql freshports.org.new > loading.txt 2>&1 real 14m5.820s user 0m14.076s sys 0m13.007s
That went well. But now I’m out of time. :)
