“cannot write to log file pg_upgrade_internal.log” when upgrading from Postgresql 9.1 to 9.3

问题

I keep on getting the above error whenever I run the following command via a postgres user.

/usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/bin/pg_upgrade \
   -b /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin/ \
   -B /usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/bin/ \
   -d /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/main \
   -D /var/lib/postgresql/9.3/main

cannot write to log file pg_upgrade_internal.log Failure, exiting

I'm using Ubuntu 13.10. Both Postgresql 9.1 and 9.3 are running properly.

回答1:

Make sure that you run this command from a directory that is writable by the postgres user, like /tmp or /var/lib/postgresql:

$ cd /tmp
$ usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/bin/pg_upgrade ...

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23216734/cannot-write-to-log-file-pg-upgrade-internal-log-when-upgrading-from-postgresq