Re: Prevent printing "next step instructions" in initdb and pg_upgrade

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 11:21:22AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 05:11:38PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > In summary, I think the vacuumdb --analyze is now a one-line command,
> > > but the delete part can be complex and not easily typed.
> >
> > I definitely agree to that part -- my argument is that it's more
> > complex (or rather, more platform-specific) than can easily be put in
> > the script either. If it were to be replaced it wouldn't be withy "a
> > command",it would be with instructions basically saying "delete the
> > old cluster". Platform specific wrappers (debian, redhat, windows or
> > whatever) knows more and could do a more complete job, but trying to
> > make all that generic is very complicated.
>
> Agreed, but I don't see OS-specific instruction on how to delete the
> tablespaces as reasonable --- that should be done by pg_upgrade, and we
> have had almost no complaints about that.

Stepping back, I have always felt there was need for a wrapper program
to setup pg_upgrade, and clean up the old cluster on finish, though no
one has created such a tool yet.

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