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Re: pg_upgrade defaulting to port 25432

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-06-24T13:04:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On tor, 2011-06-23 at 21:39 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I have created the following patch which uses 25432 as the default port
> number for pg_upgrade.

I don't think we should just steal a port from the reserved range.
Picking a random port from the private/dynamic range seems more
appropriate.

> It also creates two new environment variables,
> OLDPGPORT and NEWPGPORT, to control the port values because we don't
> want to default to PGPORT anymore.

I would prefer that all PostgreSQL-related environment variables start
with "PG".