Re: In-place upgrade: catalog side

Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> If you compare with pg_migrator, there is better handling of locale and I think
> vacuum freeze is used correctly. Also shuffling with tablespaces is little bit
> different (it should avoid to move data outside of mountpoint). But in principal
> the idea is same.
>
> > -There are 10 TODO items listed for the pg_migrator project, most or all
> > of which look like should be squashed before this is really complete.
> > Any chance somebody (Korry?) has an improved version of this floating
> > around beyond what's in the pgfoundry CVS already?
>
> As I mentioned before pg_migrator and pg_upgrade.sh is not good way. It is
> workaround. It does not make sense to continue in this way.

As the author of the original shell script, which was in
/contrib/pg_upgrade, I think the code has grown to the point where it
should be reimplemented in something like Perl.

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