Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > The attached applied patch improves pg_upgrade by: ?avoiding one
> > start/stop of the postmaster; ?using the -w (wait) flag for pg_ctl
> > start/stop; ?removing the unused "quiet" flag in the functions for
> > starting/stopping the postmaster.
>
> It is well past time to stop tweaking pg_upgrade for 9.1. Feature
> freeze was three months ago, and the risk of introducing new bugs at
> this point surely outweighs any gain we might get from the changes.
> We should only be fixing *bugs* at this point.
Someone at PG East complained pg_upgrade wasn't fast enough for his
usage, so I tried to speed it up. (I guess it was a bug for him.) I
think not using -w for pg_ctl could be a potential bug because we wack
around the files underneath the postmaster when we think it is shut
down. The "quiet" change was just a cleanup.
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