Re: [HACKERS] pg_upgrade to clusters with a different WAL segment size

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] pg_upgrade to clusters with a different WAL segment size
Date: 2017-11-13 22:26:22
Message-ID: CAB7nPqT6RObVs_xD_oJOM_pQDoVPKkV7woEvWqDm9TAa=xe2jQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 6:11 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> Hm. I'm not really on-board with doing this in pg_upgrade. A more
> logical place seems to be pg_resetwal or something - there's no need to
> force a pg_upgrade cycle (which is pretty expensive on clusters with a
> significant number of objects) for somebody that wants to change the
> segment size of a cluster without changing the major version.
> pg_resetwal or a new tool seems like a more appropriate places for this.

pg_upgrade makes use of pg_resetwal, so I am assuming that what Nathan
means is actually what you mean, so as pg_upgrade gains as well an
option with the segment size which will wrap the pg_resetwal's call.
--
Michael

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