On 2/4/2016 10:03 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Before 9.2, pg_upgrade never worked at all for setups with config-only
> data directories, since it couldn't figure out where the real data
> directory was. Now it does work, but only if the old postmaster supports -C.
would a (hacky) workaround be to copy the 8.4 postgresql.conf and
pg_hba.conf to the actual data directory, then point to that as the source ?
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