On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:35:35PM -0500, Jim Nasby wrote: > On 3/20/13 8:41 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >Also, if a users uses checksums in 9.3, could they initdb without > >checksums in 9.4 and use pg_upgrade? As coded, the pg_controldata > >checksum settings would not match and pg_upgrade would throw an > >error, but it might be possible to allow this, i.e. you could go from > >checksum to no checksum initdb clusters, but not from no checksum to > >checksum. I am wondering if the patch should reflect this. > > If the docs don't warn about this, they should, but I don't think it's > the responsibility of this patch to deal with that problem. The reason > I don't believe this patch should deal with it is because that is a > known, rather serious, limitation of pg_upgrade. It's something about > pg_upgrade that just needs to be fixed, regardless of what patches > might make the situation worse.
Huh? It wasn't a "serious limitation" of pg_upgrade until this patch. What limitation does pg_upgrade have regardless of this patch? -- 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
