Re: Problem with pg_upgrade?

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Problem with pg_upgrade?
Date: 2011-03-31 16:14:26
Message-ID: AANLkTi=RDKdpfnjuXz4FMs+JsFLXRx1zfrOCybK5UF2H@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
>> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> >> ?I think the maintenance
>> >> overhead of an invisible variable is too much.
>> >
>> > A simple GUC or command-line switch isn't much code.
>>
>> I like the idea of a command-line switch.
>
> If you want to do that you should gereralize it as --binary-upgrade in
> case we have other needs for it.

Yeah. Or we could do a binary_upgrade GUC which has the effect of
forcibly suppressing autovacuum, and maybe other things later. I
think that's a lot less hazardous than fiddling with the autovacuum
GUC.

--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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