At Wednesday, 2012-08-15 05:00 am, the work began. Four hours of downtime later at 09:00 am the upgrade was complete.
Two brand new identical HP DL380 Gen8 servers with 400GB SSD-disks and 192GB RAM are now serving our customers.
This was one of the most nervous moments in my life, a revert would have been impossible once the API was brought back online.
Luckily, it turned out we had done a decent job testing everything, only a few glitches caused some minor problems during the following hours.
Many thanks to Magnus Hagander from Redpill Linpro who helped out with the upgrade.
I had never seen pg_basebackup in action before, impressive, very user-friendly, it even had a nice progress bar!
Trustly Group AB is a very PostgreSQL centric payment company, so a moment like this of course called for some cake and champagne!
It’s been very frustrating to see all new cool features in 9.0 and 9.1, while being stuck at 8.4.
What I’ve been looking forward to the most:
Joel on SQL 