Re: pg_upgrade parallelism - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pg_upgrade parallelism
Date
Msg-id 61285.1637703805@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: pg_upgrade parallelism  (Jacob Champion <pchampion@vmware.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
Jacob Champion <pchampion@vmware.com> writes:
> Right. What I'm worried about is, if disk space or write performance on
> the new cluster is a concern, then having a copy-mode upgrade silently
> use copy-on-write could be a problem if the DBA needs copy mode to
> actually copy.

Particularly for the cross-filesystem case, where it would not be
unreasonable to expect that one could dismount or destroy the old FS
immediately afterward.  I don't know if recent kernels try to make
that safe/transparent.

            regards, tom lane



pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: Sequence's value can be rollback after a crashed recovery.
Next
From: Robert Haas
Date:
Subject: Re: Post-CVE Wishlist