Downgrade 3.4 Standalone to 3.2¶

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Before you attempt any downgrade, familiarize yourself with the content of this document.

Downgrade Path¶

Once upgraded to 3.4, you cannot downgrade to a 3.2.7 or earlier version. You can only downgrade to a 3.2.8 or later version.

Create Backup¶

Optional but Recommended. Create a backup of your database.

Prerequisites¶

Before downgrading the binaries, you must downgrade the feature compatibility version and remove any 3.4 features incompatible with 3.2 or earlier versions as outlined below. These steps are necessary only if featureCompatibilityVersion has ever been set to "3.4".

1. Downgrade Feature Compatibility Version¶

Connect a mongo shell to the mongod instance.
Downgrade the featureCompatibilityVersion to "3.2".
```
db.adminCommand({setFeatureCompatibilityVersion: "3.2"})
```
This command must perform writes to an internal system collection. If for any reason the command does not complete successfully, you can safely retry the command on the mongod instance as the operation is idempotent.

2. Remove Views¶

If you have defined any views, drop the views before downgrading MongoDB 3.4 to 3.2.

Connect a mongo shell to the mongod instance.
To find views, you can run the following in the mongo shell:
```
db.adminCommand("listDatabases").databases.forEach(function(d){
   let mdb = db.getSiblingDB(d.name);
   mdb.getCollectionInfos({type: "view"}).forEach(function(c){
      print(mdb[c.name]);
   });
});
```
In each database that contains views, drop the system.views collection to drop all views in that database.

If running with access control, you must have privileges to drop the system.views collection for the database. See Create a Role to Drop system.views Collection across Databases.

3. Remove Collation Option from Collections and Indexes¶

If you have defined any non-“simple” collation for a collection or an index, remove the collection or index before downgrading MongoDB 3.4 to 3.2.

Connect a mongo shell to the mongod instance.

To find collections with collation specifications, you can run the following in the mongo shell:

db.adminCommand("listDatabases").databases.forEach(function(d){
   let mdb = db.getSiblingDB(d.name);
   mdb.getCollectionInfos( { "options.collation": { $exists: true } } ).forEach(function(c){
      print(mdb[c.name]);
   });
});

You can migrate the content of the collection to a new collection without the collation specification (one way is via the aggregation pipeline stage $out).

To find indexes with collation specification, you can run the following in the mongo shell:

db.adminCommand("listDatabases").databases.forEach(function(d){
   let mdb = db.getSiblingDB(d.name);
   mdb.getCollectionInfos().forEach(function(c){
      let currentCollection = mdb.getCollection(c.name);
      currentCollection.getIndexes().forEach(function(i){
         if (i.collation){
            printjson(i);
         }
      });
   });
});

Drop the indexes with a collation specification. After the downgrade, recreate the dropped indexes.

4. Convert Data of Type Decimal¶

Connect a mongo shell to the mongod instance.
Convert any data of decimal type. In versions of MongoDB earlier than 3.4, operations against documents that contain decimal type may fail. For some possible conversion options, see Model Monetary Data.

To detect the presence of decimal, you can run db.collection.validate(true) against the collections which may contain decimal data.

db.collection.validate(true) reports on decimal data only when featureCompatibilityVersion is "3.2".

5. Downgrade Index Versions¶

If you have v: 2 indexes (i.e. the default version for indexes created in MongoDB 3.4 if featureCompatibilityVersion: "3.4"), reindex the collection to recreate all indexes on the collection as v: 1 before downgrading MongoDB.

Connect a mongo shell to the mongod instance.

To find indexes with v: 2, you can run the following in the mongo shell:

db.adminCommand("listDatabases").databases.forEach(function(d){
   let mdb = db.getSiblingDB(d.name);
   mdb.getCollectionInfos().forEach(function(c){
      let currentCollection = mdb.getCollection(c.name);
      currentCollection.getIndexes().forEach(function(i){
         if (i.v === 2){
            printjson(i);
         }
      });
   });
});

Procedure¶

1

Download the latest 3.2 binaries.¶

Using either a package manager or a manual download, get the latest release in the 3.2 series. If using a package manager, add a new repository for the 3.2 binaries, then perform the actual downgrade process.