Re: optimize file transfer in pg_upgrade

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, bruce@momjian.us
Date: 2025-03-19T15:31:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 09:14:22PM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> And here is a new version of the full patch set.

I'm currently planning to commit this sometime early-ish next week.  One
notable loose end is the lack of a pg_upgrade test with a non-default
tablespace, but that is an existing problem that IMHO is best handled
separately (since we can only test it in cross-version upgrades).

-- 
nathan



Commits

  1. initdb: Add --no-sync-data-files.

  2. pg_dump: Add --sequence-data.

  3. pg_upgrade: Add --swap for faster file transfer.

  4. Add test for pg_upgrade file transfer modes.

  5. Fix an intermetant BF failure in 003_logical_slots.