Re: pg_upgrade - add config directory setting

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>, "Mr(dot) Aaron W(dot) Swenson" <titanofold(at)gentoo(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_upgrade - add config directory setting
Date: 2011-10-07 18:40:39
Message-ID: 201110071840.p97Ied527278@momjian.us
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I will now work on pg_upgrade to also use the new flag to find the data
> > directory from a config-only install. However, this is only available
> > in PG 9.2, and it will only be in PG 9.3 that you can hope to use this
> > feature (if old is PG 9.2 or later). I am afraid the symlink hack will
> > have to be used for several more years, and if you are supporting
> > upgrades from pre-9.2, perhaps forever.
>
> The attached patch uses "postmaster -C data_directory" to allow
> config-only upgrades. It will allow a normal 9.1 cluster to be upgraded
> to a 9.2 config-only cluster.

Applied.

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