Re: Clarification in pg10's pgupgrade.html step 10 (upgrading standby servers)

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 04:31:09PM +0200, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
> På onsdag 13. september 2017 kl. 15:26:27, skrev Bruce Momjian <
> bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>:
>
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 01:35:17AM +0200, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
> [snip]
> > I know I'm being a little nitty-gritty here, but if it helps me
> understand it
> > might help others.
>
> I have applied the attached patch to show examples of using rsync on
> PGDATA and tablespaces, documented that rsync is only useful when in
> link mode, and explained more clearly how rsync handles links.  You can
> see the results here:
>
> http://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/pgupgrade.html
>
> Any more improvements?
>
>  
> Very nice!
>  
> For sake of completeness I think an example of running rsync when having pg_wal
> located outside the data directories would be helpful. Especially an example
> upgrading from 9.6 to 10 because of the name-change of pg_xlog -> pg_wal.

I think the tablespace example is clear enough to modify for WAL and we
instruct them right below that example to do WAL.

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