Re: Using pg_upgrade on log-shipping standby servers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On mån, 2012-07-23 at 10:08 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> Relying on the number of hard links seems very fragile.  For example,
> it'll break if you are using copy mode.  And it won't work on Windows,
> either.

pg_upgrade could remember the list of files that the user would need to
copy to the remote server (i.e., the list of files pg_upgrade itself
copied or linked) and write that to a file.