Thanks for working on this, but wouldn't pg_upgrade be needed from 10.1 to 10.2? Aren't those considered major versions, or am I misunderstanding?
The source of my (and potentially others) confusion is if from 9.1 to 9.2 is considered a major version change or not. I think most users would assume from 9.x to 10.x is a major version change. The ambiguity is in 9.x to 9.y.
Thanks,
Jim
On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 7:26 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 09:30:41PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote: > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/pgupgrade.html > Description: > > If a reader who is unfamiliar with PostgreSQL's versioning (where 9.5 and > 9.6 are considered major versions) reads the documentation, it is unclear if > they need to use pg_upgrade to migrate from 9.5 to 9.6, for example. > > The documentation says upgrading "from 9.6.3 to the current major release" > requires pg_upgrade, but not "from 9.6.2 to 9.6.3". > > The problem with that language is that the current release of PostgreSQL is > 10. So is pg_upgrade required to upgrade from 9.6.3 to current (10) because > 9 and 10 are major versions or because 9.6 and 10.0 are major versions? (the > latter). > > It would be clearer if the documentation covered all three cases: > 9.6.3 -> 10.0.0 and 9.5.1 -> 9.6.3: pg_upgrade should be used > 9.6.2 -> 9.6.3: pg_upgrade not needed > > Or if the documentation simply noted that the second decimal is considered a > major release.
