Re: pg_upgrade --logfile option documentation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: pg_upgrade --logfile option documentation
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Msg-id 1330454810-sup-909@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: pg_upgrade --logfile option documentation  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: pg_upgrade --logfile option documentation
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mar feb 28 15:24:45 -0300 2012:

> I think you should rename the old control file just before the step
> that says "linking user relation files".  That's the point after which
> it becomes unsafe to start the old cluster, right?

Also, if it's not using link mode, what is the point in doing the rename
in the first place?  I was using copy mode when I did my tests and yet
it got renamed (unless link mode is now the default, which I doubt?)

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