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Re: pg_upgrade defaulting to port 25432

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> — 2011-06-24T20:34:33Z

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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.

Oh, I didn't know about that.  I will use 50432 instead.

> > 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".

OK, attached.  I was also using environment variables for PGDATA and
PGBIN do I renamed those too to begin with 'PG'.

Patch attached.

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