On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:44:29AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of jue sep 29 09:56:09 -0300 2011: > > > > Thinking some more, I don't need to know the data directory while the > > server is down --- I already am starting it. pg_upgrade starts both old > > and new servers during its check phase, and it could look up the > > data_directory GUC variable and use that value when accessing files. > > That would work for old and new servers. However, I assume that is > > something we would not backpatch to 9.1. > > Why not? We've supported separate data/config dirs for a long time now, > so it seems to me that pg_upgrade not coping with them is a bug. If > pg_upgrade starts postmaster, it seems simple to grab the data_directory > setting, is it not?
I was going to say. I'd view this as bringing the behavior of pg_upgrade to a consistent state with postgres. I vote for it being backpatched to 9.0 even. For whatever my vote is worth. -- Mr. Aaron W. Swenson Pseudonym: TitanOfOld Gentoo Developer
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