On Tuesday, December 28, 2010 10:52:44 pm Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 23:12:12 -0500, > > Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Yeah, it's intentional that the config files aren't copied, since we > > don't have any automated way of figuring out what you changed in the > > old versions (and just blindly dropping the old ones into the new > > version is a bad plan). There is a note about this in the README > > file, but maybe that's not sufficiently visible. Should I have the > > "service postgresql upgrade" script tell you about it? Usually > > initscripts aren't supposed to be too verbose, but since this particular > > action can only get invoked manually, maybe it's okay to do that. > > I expected postgresql.conf not to get copied, but I figured that > pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf wouldn't have changed enough between 8.4 and > 9.0 to invalidate them. > > I think it is reasonable for the upgrade service to be a bit more chatty, > since I would expect that to be run manually and just for the update. Just > saying to check the conf files before restarting posgres would probably be > enough. I honestly think that doing this in the initscripts is the wrong way to do it. just have a postgresql-upgrade script that someone runs. the same should be done of initdb also they can then feel free to be as verbose as they need to be. Dennis
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