Re: pg_upgrade defaulting to port 25432

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>> > Robert Haas wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>> >> > Robert Haas wrote:
>> >> >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>> >> >> > OK, fair enough. ?Should I apply my ports patch to Postgres 9.2?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I'm not sure which patch you are referring to.
>> >> >
>> >> > This one which makes 50432 the default port.
>> >>
>> >> There appear to be some other changes mixed into this patch.
>> >
>> > The additional changes were to have the existing environment variables
>> > begin with "PG", as requested.
>>
>> It's easier to read the patches if you do separate changes in separate
>> patches.  Anyway, I'm a bit nervous about this hunk:
>>
>> +             if (old_cluster.port == DEF_PGUPORT)
>> +                     pg_log(PG_FATAL, "When checking a live old server, "
>> +                                "you must specify the old server's port number.\n");
>>
>> Is the implication here that I'm now going to need to specify more
>> than 4 command-line options/environment variables for this to work?
>
> Yes, we don't inherit PGPORT anymore.  Doing anything else was too
> complex to explain in the docs.

Seems like a usability regression.

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