Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D023B5DC70 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:38:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 54301-02 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:38:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sam.nabble.com (sam.nabble.com [216.139.236.26]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F0FBB5DC00 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:38:38 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.236.26] (helo=sam.nabble.com) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R3YoY-00079d-3U for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:38:38 -0700 Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:38:38 -0700 (PDT) From: MirrorX To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Message-ID: <1315942718102-4799801.post@n5.nabble.com> Subject: pg_upgrade --link MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.767 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL=0.01, URI_HEX=1.122 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201109/85 X-Sequence-Number: 38322 hello to all, i have tried pg_upgrade to upgrade from 8.4 to 9.0. the operation was completed succesfully. i only have one question: i did the procedure twice. once without the 'link (-k) option' and one with it. obviously the attempt with the link option was much faster. but, what does link mean here? symbolic link? i saw that after the procedure the old 'data' folder was there too, and i could delete it, so i guess the answer is not symbolic link. so what does that link mean? thx in advance -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/pg-upgrade-link-tp4799801p4799801.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - admin mailing list archive at Nabble.com.