Re: [HACKERS] pg_upgrade

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom asked about pg_upgrade as part of our initdb for timezone.
>
> I have made some improvements to pg_upgrade in CVS and have successfully
> migrated a regression database from a 7.2 to another 7.2 database using
> it. (At least the tables show some data; very light testing.)

Here is a patch I need to /contrib/pg_resetxlog to support a new "-x
XID" option to set the XID in pg_control. Patch attached. This is the
last feature I needed for a functioning pg_upgrade for 7.1->7.2 and
7.2->7.2 databases.

Many commercial distributions like this script, and with our
newly-needed initdb to fix our timezonetz problem, it seemed like a good
time. :-) It certainly reduces upgrade time.

(BTW, where are we on that timezonetz patch anyway? Tom posted it two
days ago and I haven't seen any comments.)

pg_upgrade is still disabled.

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