I am trying to update PostgreSQL 11.2 to PostgreSQL 14.0.
My PG 11 Data directory size is 1.1 GB and my PG 14 data directory is 41 MB before the upgrade.
I am now running my below upgrade command:
"C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\14.0\bin\pg_upgrade.exe" -U postgres --old-bindir "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\11.2\bin" --new-bindir "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\14.0\bin" --old-datadir "C:\pgData112" --new-datadir "C:\pgData140" -p 5432 -P 5433 --retain
C:\pg_upgrade_log>"C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\14.0\bin\pg_upgrade.exe" -U postgres --old-bindir "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\11.2\bin" --new-bindir "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\14.0\bin" --old-datadir "C:\pgData112" --new-datadir "C:\pgData140" -p 5432 -P 5433 --link --check
Performing Consistency Checks
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Checking cluster versions ok
Checking database user is the install user ok
Checking database connection settings ok
Checking for prepared transactions ok
Checking for system-defined composite types in user tables ok
Checking for reg* data types in user tables ok
Checking for contrib/isn with bigint-passing mismatch ok
Checking for user-defined encoding conversions ok
Checking for user-defined postfix operators ok
Checking for tables WITH OIDS ok
Checking for invalid "sql_identifier" user columns ok
Checking for presence of required libraries ok
Checking database user is the install user ok
Checking for prepared transactions ok
Checking for new cluster tablespace directories ok
*Clusters are compatible*
C:\pg_upgrade_log>"C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\14.0\bin\pg_upgrade.exe" -U postgres --old-bindir "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\11.2\bin" --new-bindir "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\14.0\bin" --old-datadir "C:\pgData112" --new-datadir "C:\pgData140" -p 5432 -P 5433 --retain
Performing Consistency Checks
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Checking cluster versions ok
Checking database user is the install user ok
Checking database connection settings ok
Checking for prepared transactions ok
Checking for system-defined composite types in user tables ok
Checking for reg* data types in user tables ok
Checking for contrib/isn with bigint-passing mismatch ok
Checking for user-defined encoding conversions ok
Checking for user-defined postfix operators ok
Checking for tables WITH OIDS ok
Checking for invalid "sql_identifier" user columns ok
Creating dump of global objects ok
Creating dump of database schemas
ok
Checking for presence of required libraries ok
Checking database user is the install user ok
Checking for prepared transactions ok
Checking for new cluster tablespace directories ok
If pg_upgrade fails after this point, you must re-initdb the
new cluster before continuing.
Performing Upgrade
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Analyzing all rows in the new cluster ok
Freezing all rows in the new cluster ok
Deleting files from new pg_xact ok
Copying old pg_xact to new server ok
Setting oldest XID for new cluster ok
Setting next transaction ID and epoch for new cluster ok
Deleting files from new pg_multixact/offsets ok
Copying old pg_multixact/offsets to new server ok
Deleting files from new pg_multixact/members ok
Copying old pg_multixact/members to new server ok
Setting next multixact ID and offset for new cluster ok
Resetting WAL archives ok
Setting frozenxid and minmxid counters in new cluster ok
Restoring global objects in the new cluster ok
Restoring database schemas in the new cluster
ok
Copying user relation files
ok
Setting next OID for new cluster ok
Sync data directory to disk ok
WARNING: user-defined tablespace locations should not be inside the data directory, e.g. C:/pgData112/ad/ADG/ADG_ADG7x1_TS
Checking for extension updates ok
Upgrade Complete
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Optimizer statistics are not transferred by pg_upgrade.
Once you start the new server, consider running:
C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/14.0/bin/vacuumdb -U postgres --all --analyze-in-stages
Could not create a script to delete the old cluster's data files
because user-defined tablespaces or the new cluster's data directory
exist in the old cluster directory. The old cluster's contents must
be deleted manually.
C:\pg_upgrade_log>
All the steps are stated as OK and the Upgrade Completed message is displayed.
The same is happening with --link option as well.
Now, why the original PG 11.2 data size does not matched with PG 14 data size? is there any issue happened while upgrade? I dont see any error message also.
Am I doing it the right way?
EDIT:
In our application, say, when we create a record, it creates a custom named directory under PG data folder, and inside some FILE type files are placed. So far, that directory holds about 550MB of data in PG 11.2's C:\pgdata112.
After PG upgrade to PG 14, that directory was not present in PG 14 data folder, C:\pgdata140. But all other remaining directories holds the same size.
Only that custom made directory's files seeems to be missing and so the size difference is seen.


VACUUM FULLon the old cluster? The files might contain much less data than their actual size on disk.--analyze-in-stagesis not what frees up unused space in the table files. It merely calculates statistics for the optimizer.