Re: Upgrading doc does not mention pg_restore at all

FYI, I have merged these suggestions into a later thread, that includes
a patch:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20140821161846(dot)GC26710(at)momjian(dot)us#20140821161846(dot)GC26710@momjian.us

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On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 08:02:33PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:47:43PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > Folks:
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/upgrading.html
> >
> > ... no mention of pg_restore of any kind. Is there any reason why
> > someone (maybe me) *shouldn't* rewrite this to include pg_restore?
> >
> >
> > I can't see any reason - it definitely should mention it.
> >
> >
> >
> > Frankly, I think recommending psql to restore is a bad idea ...
> >
> >
> > Yes. And recommending pg_dumpall > sqlfile, but that goes hand in hand with
> > that.
>
> Yes, it is pg_dumpall that is driving the psql example. Should we just
> reference the SQL Dump section of our docs rather than giving examples
> in this section? I am noticing we don't warn about the pg_dumpall
> --globals-only requirement anywhere in our SQL Dump docs, and I don't
> see it in the reference pages either.
>
> > It also says that the least-downtime way is to use pg_dumpall in a pipe to
> > psql. That's clearly not correct, since it does not support parallel restore
> > (or parallel dump).
> >
> > In short, +1 for you to write a patch that changes that.
>
> OK.
>
> > It could probably deserve a better description of pg_upgrade as well, and an
> > outline of the differences. Right now we spend the majority of the page on
> > pg_dump, and then just say "oh, with pg_upgrade it only takes minutes"...
>
> OK, I will try to work on that. I think I am going to need to change
> several parts of the docs to complete this.
>
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