Re: Doubt about pg_upgrade with link mode

Ok, sorry for the noise. I had a error in my upgrade script, and it
was not being really honored.
Now it worked.

However it still would be great being able to read some article or
documentation that details a little bit information about the link
mode.

Cheers

2014-05-26 16:37 GMT+02:00 Luis <luisico(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to upgrade a PG 9.1 cluster to a 9.3 one.
> I'm trying to use --link to do it in link mode since I don't have much
> disk space for the migration.
>
> I'm not totally sure that the --link parameter is being honored. I
> can't see any mention about link mode in the migration logs and the
> new cluster takes too much space.
>
> I would like to understand how link mode really works. What does it
> link and what does it copy. Unfortunately I didn't find information
> about that. Any link that provides more info would be appreciated.
>
> I've compare inodes from base files in the old data directory and the
> new one and they are different.
>
> copying "/9.1/base/18976/74003" to "/9.3/base/16416/73829"
>
> $ stat /mnt/pg_data/base/18976/74001 --printf=%i
> 12454860
>
> $ stat /mnt/pg_data-9.3/base/16416/73829 --printf=%i
> 10488427
>
> It doesn't seem to be a hard link. Should it?