Re: pg_upgrade issues

depstein(at)alliedtesting(dot)com wrote:
> Encountered another problem with pg_upgrade on Windows XP Pro:
>
> I was trying to migrate from 8.4 to 9.0beta2 without linking, and
> apparently there was not enough space on the hard drive. However,
> pg_upgrade didn't report any problems, and it looked for all the world
> as if everything went well. I only found out that not all files were
> copied to the new cluster when vacuumdb reported missing files and when
> I actually compared the sizes of the two clusters on the disk.

Thank you for the clear bug report. Magnus has diagnosed the problem,
and I am attaching the patch fix that will appear in 9.0 beta4.
Fortunately this problem only happens in copy mode, and only when the
copy fails, as you saw.

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