Re: pg_upgrade invalid option

On 11 June 2010 14:55, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I've tried following the instructions on this page:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/books/aw_pgsql/node267.html
>>
>> This mentions a -f option but my version of pg_upgrade doesn't appear
>> to support this:
>>
>> /usr/lib64/postgresql-9.0/bin/pg_upgrade: invalid option -- 'f'
>>
>> The only options available are:
>>
> <snip>
>
>> Are those instructions for an older version?
>>
>
> That's Bruce's book which is probably 8 or 9 years old now. It's
> almost certainly referring to the old pg_upgrade shell script from
> years ago.
>

Ah, unfortunately that's the first result in Google. I've resorted to
restoring from a full backup :( I don't think I could use it for
upgrading from beta 1 to beta 2 anyway by the looks of things. The
binary directories are updated since they share the same version
number.

Thom