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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