From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Ian Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | PG-General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: A note on pg_upgrade and missing "pg_upgrade_support.so" |
Date: | 2010-09-28 17:44:11 |
Message-ID: | 201009281744.o8SHiBW16011@momjian.us |
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Ian Barwick wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
> > I hope my comment didn't sound insulting. ?I really want to know how
> > that doc item can be made clearer.
>
> No insult taken :) .With the benefit of hindsight it's plenty clear;
> the problem was:
>
> a) I was doing this in a hurry (had a small amount of time to kill and
> a dev machine with an older beta on it)
> b) got sidetracked by this thread which appears to describe the same
> problem: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-testers/2010-06/msg00000.php
> and which was popping up pretty high in Google.
Yep, we need to address this.
> Looking over the doc page again, if scanning over it, it's a bit easy
> to misread it as something like "Install pg_upgrade for pg_upgrade
> support in the new PostgreSQL cluster".
The big problem was that the title said "Install pg_upgrade", but the
detail had you installing two things, one of which was pg_upgrade. It
was using pg_upgrade in both a generic sense, and in the
/contrib/pg_upgrade sense, which is bound to confuse, as you said.
I have attached a doc diff I backpatched to 9.0 that includes
pg_upgrade_support in the section title. This should avoid future
confusing. Thanks for your report.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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