Re: Lets (not) break all the things. Was: [pgsql-advocacy] 9.6 -> 10.0

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 07:40:53PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 3:36 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 03:23:52PM -0500, Jim Nasby wrote:
> >> 2) There's no ability at all to revert, other than restore a backup. That
> >> means if you pull the trigger and discover some major performance problem,
> >> you have no choice but to deal with it (you can't switch back to the old
> >> version without losing data).
> >
> > In --link mode only
> 
> No, not really.  Once you let write transactions into the new cluster,
> there's no way to get back to the old server version no matter which
> option you used.

Yes, there is, and it is documented:
       If you ran <command>pg_upgrade</command> <emphasis>without</>       <option>--link</> or did not start the new
server,the       old cluster was not modified except that, if linking       started, a <literal>.old</> suffix was
appendedto       <filename>$PGDATA/global/pg_control</>.  To reuse the old       cluster, possibly remove the
<filename>.old</>suffix from       <filename>$PGDATA/global/pg_control</>; you can then restart the       old cluster.
 

What is confusing you?

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