Re: Upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2 in place, same machine

On Wed, 10 Jul 2013, Vincent Lau wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Wells Oliver <wellsoliver@gmail.com>wrote:
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>> OK, cool. I did not want to be in a position where I stop the servers,
>> pg_upgrade --link 9.1 to 9.2, then (eventually) pg_dropcluster of 9.1 and,
>> woops, I killed all of my data files.
>>
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> And if you have enough storage, you can always stage a testing environment
> and test this out. It'd tell you how long the whole upgrade would take too.
> :)
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>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:13 PM, ktm@rice.edu <ktm@rice.edu> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:02:06PM -0700, Wells Oliver wrote:
>>>> Hard linking means that you must maintain 8.2's data directory though,
>>> even
>>>> after upgrade, correct? Since it's a link and not a copied file.
>>>>
>>> I think it only hard links the files to the new 9.2 data directory so you
>>> can delete the old data directory and the files will still be in the new
>>> directory since the link count will be > 0.
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
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how would pg_upgrade be used to upgrade to a new machine
use nfs?
would i run pg_upgrade on the new server?