On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Alvaro Herrera
>> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> > Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of vie jun 24 22:22:55 -0400 2011:
>> >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> >
>> >> > You want the environment variable support removed?
>> >>
>> >> I don't. ?It's production usefulness is questionable, but it's quite
>> >> handy for testing IMO.
>> >
>> > If that's what you want, I think being able to read a file (whose
>> > filename you pass with a switch to pg_upgrade) with a bunch of settings
>> > is even more convenient. ?Heck, maybe it's more convenient for the user
>> > too.
>>
>> If someone wants to do the work, I'm all in favor. But I don't feel
>> that we should insist that Bruce do it.
>
> Is there agreement to remove all pg_upgrade-specific environment
> variables?
I'm not in favor of that unless we have a workable replacement for them.
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