After You Upgrade
After you finish upgrading the Vertica server package on your cluster, a number of tasks remain.
Required Tasks
- Upgrade client authentication (required only if you are upgrading from pre-7.1 versions).
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Reinstall packages such as the R language pack that you uninstalled before upgrading. For each package, see its install/upgrade instructions. For R, see Installing/Upgrading the R Language Pack for Vertica.
Note: Vertica Place is automatically reinstalled with the Vertica server package.
- If the upgrade was unable to install one or more packages, reinstall them with admintools.
- Upgrade Management Console.
- If your Vertica installation is integrated with Hadoop, upgrade the HCatalog connector.
Recommended Tasks
Vertica strongly recommends that you bundle data files after completing the database upgrade.
Optional Tasks
- Convert backups so they are compatible with the new version. Database backups from pre-7.2 versions of Vertica are incompatible with the current version.
- Import directed queries that you exported from the previous version. For details, see Batch Query Plan Export and Exporting Directed Queries from the Catalog.
- Rebuild the geospatial indexes. For details about the pre-upgrade steps, see Back Up Geospatial Indexes.