Re: pg_upgrade if 'postgres' database is dropped

Stephen Frost wrote:
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> * Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) wrote:
> > So, it is going to be confusing to support both databases because there
> > is the cleanup details I have to document if I use template1.
> 
> Presumably there's some other database in the system besides template1
> if postgres doesn't exist..  Would it be possible to just make it
> configurable?  Then the user could pick a non-template database.  Having
> it fail if the option isn't used and the default postgres isn't there is
> fine, imv.

I have not seen enough demand to make this a user-visible configuration.
We can just tell them to create a postgres database.   Frankly, they
would have had to _remove_ the postgres database after initdb for it not
to be there, and they are instructed to change nothing about the new
database.

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