| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_upgrade - add config directory setting |
| Date: | 2011-09-29 13:44:29 |
| Message-ID: | 1317303754-sup-9400@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of jue sep 29 09:56:09 -0300 2011:
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> Thinking some more, I don't need to know the data directory while the
> server is down --- I already am starting it. pg_upgrade starts both old
> and new servers during its check phase, and it could look up the
> data_directory GUC variable and use that value when accessing files.
> That would work for old and new servers. However, I assume that is
> something we would not backpatch to 9.1.
Why not? We've supported separate data/config dirs for a long time now,
so it seems to me that pg_upgrade not coping with them is a bug. If
pg_upgrade starts postmaster, it seems simple to grab the data_directory
setting, is it not?
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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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