OpenResty::Spec::Upgrading - Upgrading to new versions of OpenResty server
# upgrade metamodel $ bin/openresty upgrade foo $ bin/openresty upgrade
New versions of OpenResty server often contain modifications to the metamodel which is the data structure used by the server itself. So in order to run a newer version of OpenResty atop the database used to work with an older one, it's often required to upgrade the metamodel first. Basically it's as easy as
$ bin/openresty upgrade
This command will upgrade both the global metamodel (in the _global schema) as well as the local metamodel in all the OpenResty accounts' schemas. (See OpenResty::Spec::MetaModel for more details about the MetaModel.)
It's also possible to upgrade just a specified OpenResty account without upgrading either the global metamodel or other accounts. Just give the account name to the "upgrade" command:
$ bin/openresty upgrade foo
where foo is the account which we want to upgrade exclusively.
foo
Note that it's highly recommended to use only the CPAN release for upgrading. The SVN head might contain some half-done MetaModel changes which may corrupt you metamodel in the database later.
If you're a developer, however, the use of the SVN head is certainly encouraged ;)
In case the upgrading failed (it should not happen very often but we know that it could happen), one might have to fix the failure himself.
So, for production servers it's highly recommended to save your metamodels using the following command before upgrading (ensure you have the pg_dump utility visible in your PATH environment):
pg_dump
PATH
$ bin/save-metamodel.pl
A typycal output might be:
Dumping account _global to metamodel/_global.sql... Dumping account agentzh to metamodel/agentzh.sql... Dumping account onccf to metamodel/onccf.sql... Dumping account tester to metamodel/tester.sql... Dumping account tester2 to metamodel/tester2.sql... Dumping account zjjresty to metamodel/zjjresty.sql... Dumping account zjjresty2 to metamodel/zjjresty2.sql...
As you might have figured out, every account (including the global metamodel schema _global) is dumped out to a local SQL file under metamodel/.
_global
If the metamodel/ directory already exists, bin/save-metamodel.pl will gracefully moved it to metamodel.old/ before dumping. But existing metamodel.old/ will be overritten.
In case upgrading failed, one can restore the previous working metamodel saved by the bin/save-metamodel.pl script by the following command (ensure you have the psql utility visible in your PATH environment):
psql
$ bin/restore-metamodel.pl
This script will read all the .sql files under metamodel/ and overwrite the (broken) metamodel in the database.
For PgFarm backend, the procedure is very similar. The only difference is taht one may have to specify the hostname suffix to bin/restore-metamodel.pl, just like this:
$ bin/restore-metamodel.pl .foo.bar.com
Agent Zhang (agentzh) <agentzh@yahoo.cn>
<agentzh@yahoo.cn>
openresty, OpenResty::Spec::MetaModel, OpenResty.
To install OpenResty, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm OpenResty
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install OpenResty
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.