Re: pg_upgrade: Make testing different transfer modes easier

On 02.12.22 01:56, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
>> also thought about something like a "mode" option with an argument,
>> but given that we already have --link and --clone, this seemed the
>> most sensible.)
>>
>> Thoughts?
> 
> When I read up to the point of the --copy option, what came to my mind
> was the --mode=<blah> option.  IMHO, if I was going to add an option
> to choose the copy behavior, I would add --mode option instead, like
> pg_ctl does, as it implicitly signals that the suboptions are mutually
> exclusive.

Ok, we have sort of one vote for each variant now.  Let's see if there 
are other opinions.