| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>, rob stone <floriparob(at)gmail(dot)com>, Karsten Hilbert <Karsten(dot)Hilbert(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, myon(at)debian(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Running pg_upgrade under Debian |
| Date: | 2015-04-20 22:18:12 |
| Message-ID: | 20150420221812.GZ4369@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 07:06:37PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > ISTM there's a documentation bug here: in the code, the "dump" method
> > checks for tablespaces and raises an error if they are found, but the
> > "upgrade" method does not check. I think the documentation should state
> > that only the dump method does not support tablespaces.
>
> OK, it would be nice if someone could report that to upstream Debian.
That's why I added myon(at)debian(dot)org to the CC list.
> I am a little confused why pg_dump/pg_restore can't use tablespaces
> though. Years ago we used to not use PG-major-version-specific
> subdirectories in tablespaces, but we added that for pg_upgrade, and I
> am sure they would work fine for pg_dump too.
Maybe they haven't gotten the memo yet. This was implemented in 9.0,
and as I recall Debian supported 8.4 until recently. Perhaps they just
need to remove the check now.
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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