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From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Upgrading doc does not mention pg_restore at all
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 12:47:43 +0100
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Josh Berkus <[email protected]> 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.

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.

It could probably deserve a better descirption 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"...

-- 
 Magnus Hagander
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