On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 01:58:10PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> I have been looking at how much simplicity this brings, and I have to
> admit that it is tempting to just support the loading of dumps when
> setting up the old instance to upgrade from. We'd still need to do an
> extra effort in terms of cleaning up the diffs for the dump of the old
> instance with older versions once/if this is plugged into the
> buildfarm, but that could be addressed later depending on the versions
> that need to be covered.
The bug related to the detection of Windows and temporary paths for
pg_upgrade's server.c has been fixed as of dc57366, so attached is the
remaining rebased piece as perl2host has been recently removed.
Do others have an opinion about a backpatch of the bugfix? Nobody has
complained about that since pg_upgrade exists, so I have just done the
change on HEAD.
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Michael