Re: pg_upgrade code questions

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> I have added SGML comments to comment out the text that mentions EDB
>> Advanced Server. �Is that enough? �Should I remove the text from the
>> SGML? �Should I move it to the bottom of the SGML? �Should I remove the
>> EnterpriseDB Advanced Server checks from the C code too? �I don't
>> remember having to deal with anything like this before, so I am unclear
>> how to proceed.

> I say remove it. On all accounts.

> There's a fork of postgres for EDB AS, shouldn't there be a fork of
> pg_upgrade the same way, if it requires special code? The code in
> community postgresql certainly shouldn't have any EDB AS code in it.

Indeed.  Given the (presumably large) delta between EDB's code and ours,
having to have some delta in pg_upgrade isn't going to make much
difference for them.  I think the community code and docs should
completely omit any mention of that.
        regards, tom lane