Re: In-place upgrade: catalog side - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: In-place upgrade: catalog side
Date
Msg-id 200812032336.mB3Namo06409@momjian.us
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In response to Re: In-place upgrade: catalog side  (Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>)
Responses Re: In-place upgrade: catalog side  (Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>)
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Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> If you compare with pg_migrator, there is better handling of locale and I think 
> vacuum freeze is used correctly. Also shuffling with tablespaces is little bit 
> different (it should avoid to move data outside of mountpoint). But in principal 
> the idea is same.
> 
> > -There are 10 TODO items listed for the pg_migrator project, most or all 
> > of which look like should be squashed before this is really complete. 
> > Any chance somebody (Korry?) has an improved version of this floating 
> > around beyond what's in the pgfoundry CVS already?
> 
> As I mentioned before pg_migrator and pg_upgrade.sh is not good way. It is 
> workaround. It does not make sense to continue in this way.

As the author of the original shell script, which was in
/contrib/pg_upgrade, I think the code has grown to the point where it
should be reimplemented in something like Perl.

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