Re: A note on pg_upgrade and missing "pg_upgrade_support.so"

Ian Barwick wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just a quick note for anyone else building 9.0 from source and experimenting
> with pg_upgrade - if you get a message like the following when running the
> pg_upgrade binary:
>
> pg_upgrade_support.so must be created and installed in
> /path/to/pg90/lib/postgresql/pg_upgrade_support.so
>
> you need to build the the separate "pg_upgrade_support" as well.

Well, that is step #4:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/pgupgrade.html
4.

Install pg_upgrade

Install pg_upgrade and pg_upgrade_support in the new PostgreSQL cluster

Was that not clear enough?

> Also, the current first hit on Google for "pg_upgrade" is this page:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/books/aw_pgsql/node267.html
>
> which is hopelessly outdated (the "pg_upgrade" utility described appears to
> have been obsoleted 5 years or so ago, see:
> http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pg_upgrade/Attic/pg_upgrade
> )

Yes, that is all very old. I hope that will change now that 9.0 is
released.

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