Re: pg_upgrade defaulting to port 25432

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, 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: 2011-06-27T18:27:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Robert Haas wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >> > Robert Haas wrote:
> >> >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >> >> > OK, fair enough. ?Should I apply my ports patch to Postgres 9.2?
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm not sure which patch you are referring to.
> >> >
> >> > This one which makes 50432 the default port.
> >>
> >> There appear to be some other changes mixed into this patch.
> >
> > The additional changes were to have the existing environment variables
> > begin with "PG", as requested.
> 
> It's easier to read the patches if you do separate changes in separate
> patches.  Anyway, I'm a bit nervous about this hunk:
> 
> + 		if (old_cluster.port == DEF_PGUPORT)
> + 			pg_log(PG_FATAL, "When checking a live old server, "
> + 				   "you must specify the old server's port number.\n");
> 
> Is the implication here that I'm now going to need to specify more
> than 4 command-line options/environment variables for this to work?

Yes, we don't inherit PGPORT anymore.  Doing anything else was too
complex to explain in the docs.

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