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Re: pg_upgrade defaulting to port 25432

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-06-27T02:33:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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.

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