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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2012-07-26 14:30:07 -0400 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2012-07-26 14:30:24 -0400 |
| commit | 69451b09686e591468e6b7b959544974b724cbe8 (patch) | |
| tree | 434a35caa84a152dbb59dc404a01de3686cea7c3 /doc/src | |
| parent | 26b438694cc4461f41f2acf54db6bb3d9c1ea940 (diff) | |
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Document that the pg_upgrade user of rsync might want to skip some
files, like postmaster.pid.
Backpatch to 9.2.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/pgupgrade.sgml | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/pgupgrade.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/pgupgrade.sgml index cffcebb3070..fcbe551e764 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/pgupgrade.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/pgupgrade.sgml @@ -530,7 +530,9 @@ psql --username postgres --file script.sql postgres of the old cluster, use <command>rsync</> to create a dirty copy of the old cluster while the server is running, then shut down the old server and run <command>rsync</> again to update the copy with any - changes to make it consistent. + changes to make it consistent. You might want to exclude some + files, e.g. <filename>postmaster.pid</>, as documented in <xref + linkend="backup-lowlevel-base-backup">. </para> <refsect2> |