On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> I wonder if things would be facilitated by having a config file for
> pg_upgrade to specify binary and PGDATA paths instead of having awkward
> command line switches. That way you could request the user to create
> such a file, then
>
i like this idea, when i have used pg_upgrade i have been running it
several times with --check until everything is ok and then the actual
upgrade... so i always create a shell script to run it, a config file
should be a good idea
>
> You could even have a mode on which pg_upgrade asks for the necessary
> information to create the config file. For example
>
> pg_upgrade --create-config=/somewhere/pg_upgrade.conf
> Path to new binaries: /usr/local/pg92
> Path to old binaries: /usr/local/pg84
> Path to old data directory: /srv/pgsql-84/data
> Path to new data directory: /srv/pgsql-92/data
> Use link mode (y/N): n
> ... using copy mode.
> [now run the checks and complain about missing binaries, etc]
>
even better
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