Re: Upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2 in place, same machine

From: Wells Oliver <wellsoliver(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2 in place, same machine
Date: 2013-07-10 19:19:28
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OK, cool. I did not want to be in a position where I stop the servers,
pg_upgrade --link 9.1 to 9.2, then (eventually) pg_dropcluster of 9.1 and,
woops, I killed all of my data files.

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:13 PM, ktm(at)rice(dot)edu <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:02:06PM -0700, Wells Oliver wrote:
> > Hard linking means that you must maintain 8.2's data directory though,
> even
> > after upgrade, correct? Since it's a link and not a copied file.
> >
> I think it only hard links the files to the new 9.2 data directory so you
> can delete the old data directory and the files will still be in the new
> directory since the link count will be > 0.
>
> Ken
>

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Wells Oliver
wellsoliver(at)gmail(dot)com

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