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Subject: Re: pg_upgrade invalid option
From: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
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On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com> 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.

-- 
Dave Page
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