Upgrading v5
While PGD and Postgres are closely related, they are separate products with separate upgrade paths. This section covers how to upgrade both PGD and Postgres.
Upgrading PGD
EDB Postgres Distributed is a flexible platform. This means that your upgrade path depends largely on how you installed PGD.
Upgrading with TPA - If you installed using TPA, you can use its automated upgrade feature to upgrade to the latest minor versions.
Upgrading manually - If you manually installed and configured your PGD cluster, you will find the details and procedures needed to move a cluster between versions, both minor and major, in this section.
Upgrade Paths - This page covers available supported upgrade paths.
Compatibility changes - If you are upgrading from PGD 3.x or 4.x to PGD 5.x or later, this page covers the compatibility changes between versions.
Upgrading Postgres
In-place Postgres upgrades - How to use
bdr_pg_upgradeto manually upgrade the Postgres version on a node, or nodes.Rolling major version upgrades - How to perform a major version upgrade of Postgres on a cluster deployed using TPA.
Other Upgrades
- Application schema upgrades - A guide for safely upgrading your application's schema when running multiple distributed servers with PGD.
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- Upgrading PGD
- Upgrading Postgres
- Other Upgrades