Re: pg_upgrade parallelism

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jacob Champion <pchampion(at)vmware(dot)com>
Cc: "pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com" <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, "jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec" <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_upgrade parallelism
Date: 2021-11-23 21:43:25
Message-ID: 61285.1637703805@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jacob Champion <pchampion(at)vmware(dot)com> writes:
> Right. What I'm worried about is, if disk space or write performance on
> the new cluster is a concern, then having a copy-mode upgrade silently
> use copy-on-write could be a problem if the DBA needs copy mode to
> actually copy.

Particularly for the cross-filesystem case, where it would not be
unreasonable to expect that one could dismount or destroy the old FS
immediately afterward. I don't know if recent kernels try to make
that safe/transparent.

regards, tom lane

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