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Re: Using pg_upgrade on log-shipping standby servers

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-07-23T20:11:27Z
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On mån, 2012-07-23 at 10:08 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> Relying on the number of hard links seems very fragile.  For example,
> it'll break if you are using copy mode.  And it won't work on Windows,
> either.

pg_upgrade could remember the list of files that the user would need to
copy to the remote server (i.e., the list of files pg_upgrade itself
copied or linked) and write that to a file.