Upgrade

Overview

Upgrading to a new version of PGO is typically as simple as following the various installation guides defined within the PGO documentation:

• PGO Kustomize Install
• PGO Helm Install

However, when upgrading to or from certain versions of PGO, extra steps may be required in order to ensure a clean and successful upgrade. This page will therefore document any additional steps that must be completed when upgrading PGO.

Upgrading from PGO v5.0.0 Using Kustomize

Starting with PGO v5.0.1, both the Deployment and ServiceAccount created when installing PGO via the installers in the Postgres Operator examples repository have been renamed from postgres-operator to pgo. As a result of this change, if using Kustomize to install PGO and upgrading from PGO v5.0.0, the following step must be completed prior to upgrading. This will ensure multiple versions of PGO are not installed and running concurrently within your Kubernetes environment.

Prior to upgrading PGO, first manually delete the PGO v5.0.0 postgres-operator Deployment and ServiceAccount:

kubectl -n postgres-operator delete deployment,serviceaccount postgres-operator

Then, once both the Deployment and ServiceAccount have been deleted, proceed with upgrading PGO by applying the new version of the Kustomize installer:

kubectl apply -k kustomize/install/bases

Upgrading from PGO v5.0.2 and Below

As a result of changes to pgBackRest dedicated repository host deployments in PGO v5.0.3 (please see the PGO v5.0.3 release notes for more details), reconciliation of a pgBackRest dedicated repository host might become stuck with the following error (as shown in the PGO logs) following an upgrade from PGO versions v5.0.0 through v5.0.2:

StatefulSet.apps \"hippo-repo-host\" is invalid: spec: Forbidden: updates to statefulset spec for fields other than 'replicas', 'template', 'updateStrategy' and 'minReadySeconds' are forbidden

If this is the case, proceed with deleting the pgBackRest dedicated repository host StatefulSet, and PGO will then proceed with recreating and reconciling the dedicated repository host normally:

kubectl delete sts hippo-repo-host

Additionally, please be sure to update and apply all PostgresCluster custom resources in accordance with any applicable spec changes described in the PGO v5.0.3 release notes.