Re: pg_dumpall reccomendation in release notes

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:18:46PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I have developed the attached patch to address the issues raised above:
>
> o non-text output of pg_dump is mentioned
> o mentions of using OID for keys is removed
> o the necessity of pg_dumpall --globals-only is mentioned
> o using pg_dump parallel mode rather than pg_dumpall for upgrades is mentioned
> o pg_upgrade is mentioned more prominently for upgrades
> o replication upgrades are in their own section
>
> I don't think we want to mention pg_upgrade as the _primary_
> major-version upgrade method. While the pg_dump upgrade section is
> long, it is mostly about starting/stoping the server, moving
> directories, etc, the same things you have to do for pg_upgrade, so I
> just mentioned that int the pg_upgrade section. Other ideas?
>
> I plan to apply this to head and 9.4.

Updated patch attached and applied.

Any other suggestions? Please let me know.

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