Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 20:02:33 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Upgrading doc does not mention pg_restore at all
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On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:47:43PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> 
>     Folks:
> 
>     http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/upgrading.html
> 
>     ... no mention of pg_restore of any kind.  Is there any reason why
>     someone (maybe me) *shouldn't* rewrite this to include pg_restore?
> 
> 
> I can't see any reason - it definitely should mention it.
>  
> 
> 
>     Frankly, I think recommending psql to restore is a bad idea ...
> 
> 
> Yes. And recommending pg_dumpall > sqlfile, but that goes hand in hand with
> that.

Yes, it is pg_dumpall that is driving the psql example.  Should we just
reference the SQL Dump section of our docs rather than giving examples
in this section?  I am noticing we don't warn about the pg_dumpall
--globals-only requirement anywhere in our SQL Dump docs, and I don't
see it in the reference pages either.

> It also says that the least-downtime way is to use pg_dumpall in a pipe to
> psql. That's clearly not correct, since it does not support parallel restore
> (or parallel dump). 
> 
> In short, +1 for you to write a patch that changes that.

OK.

> It could probably deserve a better description of pg_upgrade as well, and an
> outline of the differences. Right now we spend the majority of the page on
> pg_dump, and then just say "oh, with pg_upgrade it only takes minutes"...

OK, I will try to work on that.   I think I am going to need to change
several parts of the docs to complete this.

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