On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 05:29:49PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of mié ago 08 17:15:38 -0400 2012:
> > 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?
>
> I think those 14 is a bit of a made-up number. Several of those steps
> are about building pg_upgrade, not actually using it. And there are
> some that are optional anyway.
>
> The suggestion by Tom reduces the list by two steps because it doesn't
> need to adjust pg_hba.conf or put it back in the original way
> afterwards.
True.
> Another thing worth considering is to have pg_upgrade init, stop and
> start clusters as necessary instead of requesting the user to do it.
> I think this is two less steps.
pg_upgrade already starts/stops the server --- it just checks to make
sure they are both stopped.
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