On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 12:35:56PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2020-10-27 11:53, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 11:35:25AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > On 2020-10-06 12:26, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > > I went with the name --no-instructions to have the same name for both
> > > > initdb and pg_upgrade. The downside is that "no-instructions" also
> > > > causes the scripts not to be written in pg_upgrade, which arguably is a
> > > > different thing. We could go with "--no-instructions" and
> > > > "--no-scripts", but that would leave the parameters different. I also
> > > > considered "--no-next-step", but that one didn't quite have the right
> > > > ring to me. I'm happy for other suggestions on the parameter names.
> > >
> > > What scripts are left after we remove the analyze script, as discussed in a
> > > different thread?
> >
> > There is still delete_old_cluster.sh.
>
> Well, that one can trivially be replaced by a printed instruction, too.
True. On my system is it simply:
rm -rf '/u/pgsql.old/data'
The question is whether the user is going to record the vacuumdb and rm
instructions that display at the end of the pg_upgrade run, or do we
need to write it down for them in script files.
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