On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:36:59AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Pg_upgrade already creates a script to analyze the cluster, so we could > > > create another script to upgrade a standby. However, the problem with a > > > script is that I have no idea what command people would use to do the > > > copy. > > > > Exactly. Perhaps an example wouldn't hurt, but I wouldn't go too far. > > Agreed. > > > > I think I could create a list and pass that into a loop so only > > > the command has to be modified, but again, how do we do that on Windows? > > > Can we create a shell function in Windows and pass the file name as an > > > argument? > > > > I don't know, but I assume that somewhere in the known universe there is > > a way on Windows to say, here is a list of files, copy them to that > > host. > > No idea. > > > > Another problem is that the standby cluster might create _new_ files > > > that don't exist on the master, e.g. WAL files, and those have to be > > > removed. I am not clear how to do that either, except by removing all > > > files with a hard link count of 1, and again, this is difficult on > > > Windows. > > > > Well, then that would call for another list of files. > > Well, not really. If we create a list of all user table/index files, > then any file not on the list would be removed on the standby, then all > the files in the primary not on the list are copied to the standby. > One list is less error-prone. This is easy in Unix shell and Perl, but > hard on Windows without Perl.
There was too much concern about pg_upgrade upgrading a standby server that I am not going to peruse the issue at this time. I did add a TODO in case we ever want to resurrect the idea: Consider a way to run pg_upgrade on standby servers http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2012-07/msg00453.php -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers