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Re: pg_ctl idempotent option

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2013-01-24T13:06:10Z
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On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 09:05:59AM +0530, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
> I agree, answering the question, whether the particular attempt of
> starting a server succeeded or not, will need the current behaviour.
> Now, question is which of these behaviours should be default?

That would work.  pg_upgrade knows the cluster version at that point and
can use the proper flag.

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