Re: pg_upgrade defaulting to port 25432

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, 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: 2011-06-27T16:03:09Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of vie jun 24 22:22:55 -0400 2011:
>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>
>> > You want the environment variable support removed?
>>
>> I don't.  It's production usefulness is questionable, but it's quite
>> handy for testing IMO.
>
> If that's what you want, I think being able to read a file (whose
> filename you pass with a switch to pg_upgrade) with a bunch of settings
> is even more convenient.  Heck, maybe it's more convenient for the user
> too.

If someone wants to do the work, I'm all in favor.  But I don't feel
that we should insist that Bruce do it.

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Robert Haas
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