Subject: Re: 9.5 beta pg_upgrade documentation
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
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From: Andy Colson <andy@squeakycode.net>
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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 20:46:20 -0500
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On 09/01/2015 07:00 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, Sep  1, 2015 at 06:56:11PM -0500, Andy Colson wrote:
>>> I also added a mention that rsync, not pg_upgrade, will be run on the
>>> standbys.  You can see all the results of the patch here:
>>>
>>> 	http://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/pgupgrade.html
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
>> Sweet, I'm glad I stopped where I did.  I think I'm safe to pick up at step f.  Which seemed to work ok.  But now we get to step g (run rsync).  I checked the rsync manual and don't see anything like this three directory argument thing you are trying to run.  Unless you want to use --link-dest.  In which case I think the cmd would be like:
>>
>> rsync --archive --delete --hard-links --size-only --link-dest=old_pgdata new_pgdata remote_dir
>>
>> I'm gonna try this now, will report back.
>
> No, you are copying "old_pgdata and new_pgdata" to remote_dir.
>

Ohhh... I'll try again.  (The method above (run from the standby) doesn't work well at all).

-Andy


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