| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_upgrade - add config directory setting |
| Date: | 2011-09-28 14:53:30 |
| Message-ID: | 1317221554-sup-6466@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Excerpts from Peter Eisentraut's message of mié sep 28 04:49:43 -0300 2011:
> On tis, 2011-09-27 at 16:13 -0700, Steve Crawford wrote:
> > It would perhaps be useful to add optional --old-confdir and
> > --new-confdir parameters to pg_upgrade. If these parameters are absent
> > then pg_upgrade would work as it does now and assume that the config
> > files are in the datadir.
>
> It should work the same way the postmaster itself works: If the given
> directory is not a data directory, look for the postgresql.conf file and
> look there for the location of the data directory.
So we need a postmaster switch:
postmaster --parse-config-and-report=data_directory
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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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