Re: Major upgrade of PostgreSQL and MySQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thomas Kellerer
Subject Re: Major upgrade of PostgreSQL and MySQL
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In response to Re: Major upgrade of PostgreSQL and MySQL  (Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt@yahoo.com.hk>)
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Patrick Dung wrote on 13.09.2013 18:17:
> The problem of pg_upgrade is that it needed to hold two set of databases data in the server.
> This is not be desirable (very slow) or possible (space limitation) for database with huge data.
>
> For example, if the old version is already using over 50% of the mount point.
> The new database may not have enough disk space for the upgrading.

I think if you use the --link parameter, you don't need additional disk space (or only little).




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