Re: A Modest Upgrade Proposal

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: A Modest Upgrade Proposal
Date: 2016-07-07 23:18:28
Message-ID: CANP8+jL=2fMUq3CoRPJqTBdzn_tE_D7Orh2m8EZSFK-nNJHa+A@mail.gmail.com
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On 7 July 2016 at 21:10, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> pg_upgrade does that, kinda. I'd like to have something better, but
> in the absence of that, I think it's quite wrong to think about
> deprecating it, even if we had logical replication fully integrated
> into core today. Which we by no means do.
>

I don't see any problem with extending pg_upgrade to use logical
replication features under the covers.

It seems very smooth to be able to just say

pg_upgrade --online

and then specify whatever other parameters that requires.

It would be much easier to separate out that as a use-case so we can be
sure we get that in 10.0, even if nothing else lands.

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