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From: Thom Brown <[email protected]>
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: pg_upgrade invalid option
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:01:11 +0100
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On 11 June 2010 14:55, Dave Page <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Thom Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I've tried following the instructions on this page:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/books/aw_pgsql/node267.html
>>
>> This mentions a -f option but my version of pg_upgrade doesn't appear
>> to support this:
>>
>> /usr/lib64/postgresql-9.0/bin/pg_upgrade: invalid option -- 'f'
>>
>> The only options available are:
>>
> <snip>
>
>> Are those instructions for an older version?
>>
>
> That's Bruce's book which is probably 8 or 9 years old now. It's
> almost certainly referring to the old pg_upgrade shell script from
> years ago.
>

Ah, unfortunately that's the first result in Google.  I've resorted to
restoring from a full backup :(  I don't think I could use it for
upgrading from beta 1 to beta 2 anyway by the looks of things.  The
binary directories are updated since they share the same version
number.

Thom

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