PostgreSQL

Moving local settings for pg_hba.conf and postgresql.conf out of PGDATA

One of the configuration aspects of FreeBSD I have long liked is the concept of default values which are overridden by the user. For example, /etc/defaults/rc.conf (see The /etc directory). The default values in this file can be overridden by the user with their preferred values in /etc/rc.conf (or /etc/rc.conf.local, and other locations if you […]

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Figuring out the upgrade path for AWS RDS from PostgreSQL 12.14 to PostgreSQL 16.1

These are my notes on figuring out an upgrade path for the FreshPorts PostgreSQL 12.14 database hosted on Amazon RDS. Most of this is based on Upgrading the PostgreSQL DB engine for Amazon RDS The sections of this post relate to the sections found at the above URL. First, I installed the AWS CLI (via

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Bacula: Moving from 9.x to 13.x and upgrading the PostgreSQL database

I have been using Bacula since 2004. It is my backup solution of choice, not only because it has a PostgreSQL backend, but it is flexible, robust, and reliable. I, on the other hand, have long ignored recent releases. I’m using Bacula 9.6.7 (released on 2021-01-26), roughly 3 years ago. Today, I started the upgrade

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I figured out why pg_dump was failing with PostgreSQL 15-16

In recent blog post, I outlined a problem I hit with pg_dump. Specifically, pg_dump was picking up and using ~/.pgpass with pg_dump from PostgreSQL 12-14, but with PostgreSQL 15-16, it was failing. In this blog post: FreeBSD 13.2 PostgreSQL server 12 / 16 PostgreSQL client 12-16 Bacula 9.6.7 Today we figured out why: $HOME. $HOME

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While restoring my PostgreSQL database to a new FreeBSD server, I discovered the wrong database server in a configuration file

Lately, I’ve been preparing to move from PostgreSQL 12 to PostgreSQL 16 – my main developement database server at home needs to get updated. The goal: migrate each database from the old host (running PostgreSQL 12) to the new host (running PostgreSQL 16) using pg_dump and pg_restore. Today, I decided to migrate the Bacula database.

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pg_dump: error: connection to server failed: fe_sendauth: no password supplied

FYI, this problem has been solved and described in I figured out why pg_dump was failing with PostgreSQL 15-16. This morning I encountered this error message: In this post: FreeBSD 13.2 PostgreSQL 12.16 (server – pg02) PostgreSQL 16.1 (client – dbclone) See also While restoring my PostgreSQL database to a new FreeBSD server, I discovered

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pg_dump: error: query failed: ERROR: permission denied for sequence cache_clearing_files_id_seq

Skip to the end of this post for the lesson part of this blog post. This email arrived in my inbox yesterday at about 10:00 PM: This is the backup script for my database dumps on my server at home. I immediately recognized it as the follow-on from a table I had just added. It

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Creating read-only PostgreSQL database users for pg_dump and pg_dumpall

See also mysqldump: Error: ‘Access denied; you need (at least one of) the PROCESS privilege(s) for this operation’ when trying to dump tablespaces. I’m linking this because I use both articles on a regular basis. Sometimes you want a user which can only dump the database, but nothing else. Fortunately, I searched, and found a

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