Re: pg_upgrade project status - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: pg_upgrade project status
Date
Msg-id 20090127144707.GF6444@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to pg_upgrade project status  (Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>)
Responses Re: pg_upgrade project status  (Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>)
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Zdenek Kotala wrote:

> 2) pg_upgrade.sh
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-12/msg00248.php
> 
> Pg_upgrade.sh is shell script for catalog conversion. It works for
> 8.3->8.4 upgrade.

What's the reason this script uses a postmaster?  It seems it would be
easier to control if you used a standalone backend (--single) for each
time you are piping stuff to psql.  That would reduce the need to
configure authentication, hostnames, etc etc.

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