Re: Running pg_upgrade under Debian

On 4/20/15 6:09 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 07:06:37PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> ISTM there's a documentation bug here: in the code, the "dump" method
>> checks for tablespaces and raises an error if they are found, but the
>> "upgrade" method does not check.  I think the documentation should state
>> that only the dump method does not support tablespaces.
>
> OK, it would be nice if someone could report that to upstream Debian.  I
> am a little confused why pg_dump/pg_restore can't use tablespaces
> though.  Years ago we used to not use PG-major-version-specific
> subdirectories in tablespaces, but we added that for pg_upgrade, and I
> am sure they would work fine for pg_dump too.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=772202