Re: PG Upgrade with hardlinks, when to start/stop master and replicas

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Martín Fernández <fmartin91(at)gmail(dot)com>, Hellmuth Vargas <hivs77(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PG Upgrade with hardlinks, when to start/stop master and replicas
Date: 2019-02-22 05:03:00
Message-ID: 4533.1550811780@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 09:31:32PM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> * Bruce Momjian (bruce(at)momjian(dot)us) wrote:
>>> There was too much concern that users would accidentally start the old
>>> server at some later point, and its files would be hard linked to the
>>> new live server, leading to disaster.

>> Sure, I understand that concern, just wish there was a better approach
>> we could use for "DO NOT START THIS SERVER" rather than moving of the
>> pg_control file.

> As ugly as it is, I have never heard of a better solution.

system("rm -rf $OLDPGDATA") ... nah, that is not a better idea.

regards, tom lane

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