On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 04:23:04PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Yes, the list of rough edges is the 14-steps you have to perform to run
> > pg_upgrade, as documented in the pg_upgrade manual page:
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/pgupgrade.html
> >
> > The unknown is how to reduce the number of steps in a way the community
> > would find acceptable.
>
> I think this is one good idea:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/29806.1340655654@sss.pgh.pa.us
>
> The number of steps is an issue, but the likelihood of the actual
> pg_upgrade run failing or doing the wrong thing is also something we
> need to work on.
If we currently require 14 steps to use pg_upgrade, how would that
reduce this number? What failures does it fix?
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