Re: pg_upgrade - add config directory setting

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>, "Mr. Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@gentoo.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-10-07T18:40:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I will now work on pg_upgrade to also use the new flag to find the data
> > directory from a config-only install.  However, this is only available
> > in PG 9.2, and it will only be in PG 9.3 that you can hope to use this
> > feature (if old is PG 9.2 or later).  I am afraid the symlink hack will
> > have to be used for several more years, and if you are supporting
> > upgrades from pre-9.2, perhaps forever.
> 
> The attached patch uses "postmaster -C data_directory" to allow
> config-only upgrades.  It will allow a normal 9.1 cluster to be upgraded
> to a 9.2 config-only cluster.

Applied.

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