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: 2025-03-19T21:28:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 02:32:01PM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> In addition to testing with in-place tablespaces, we might also want to
> teach the transfer modes test to do cross-version testing when possible.
> In that case, we can test normal (non-in-place) tablespaces.  However, that
> would be limited to the buildfarm.

Actually, this one was pretty easy to do.

-- 
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.