Re: 9.5 beta pg_upgrade documentation

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 06:56:11PM -0500, Andy Colson wrote:
> >I also added a mention that rsync, not pg_upgrade, will be run on the
> >standbys. You can see all the results of the patch here:
> >
> > http://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/pgupgrade.html
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
>
> Sweet, I'm glad I stopped where I did. I think I'm safe to pick up at step f. Which seemed to work ok. But now we get to step g (run rsync). I checked the rsync manual and don't see anything like this three directory argument thing you are trying to run. Unless you want to use --link-dest. In which case I think the cmd would be like:
>
> rsync --archive --delete --hard-links --size-only --link-dest=old_pgdata new_pgdata remote_dir
>
> I'm gonna try this now, will report back.

No, you are copying "old_pgdata and new_pgdata" to remote_dir.

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