Thread

pg_upgrade docs

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> — 2012-09-04T13:21:13Z

This doc sentence about pg_upgrade is now inaccurate:

   If doing <option>--check</> with a running old server of a pre-9.1 version,
   and the old server is using a Unix-domain socket directory that is
   different from the default built into the new <productname>PostgreSQL</>
   installation, set <envar>PGHOST</> to point to the socket location of the
   old server.  (This is not relevant on Windows.)

The new detail is that this also affects non-live check and non-check
upgrades because pg_ctl -w doesn't work for pre-9.1 servers with the
socket in the current directory --- that was not known when this
documentation paragraph was written.

Applied doc patch attached.  The wording became pretty complex so I
tried to simplify it.

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