Re: BUG #13911: pg_upgrade from 8.4 to 9.5 broken - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From John R Pierce
Subject Re: BUG #13911: pg_upgrade from 8.4 to 9.5 broken
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Msg-id 56B39404.1070702@hogranch.com
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In response to Re: BUG #13911: pg_upgrade from 8.4 to 9.5 broken  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: BUG #13911: pg_upgrade from 8.4 to 9.5 broken  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 2/4/2016 10:03 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Before 9.2, pg_upgrade never worked at all for setups with config-only
> data directories, since it couldn't figure out where the real data
> directory was.  Now it does work, but only if the old postmaster supports -C.

would a (hacky) workaround be to copy the 8.4 postgresql.conf and
pg_hba.conf to the actual data directory, then point to that as the source ?



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