2010/9/21 Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Bruce Momjian wrote: >> Ian Barwick wrote: >> > Hi >> > >> > Just a quick note for anyone else building 9.0 from source and experimenting >> > with pg_upgrade - if you get a message like the following when running the >> > pg_upgrade binary: >> > >> > pg_upgrade_support.so must be created and installed in >> > /path/to/pg90/lib/postgresql/pg_upgrade_support.so >> > >> > you need to build the the separate "pg_upgrade_support" as well. >> >> Well, that is step #4: >> >> Â Â Â http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/pgupgrade.html >> Â Â Â 4. >> >> Â Â Â Install pg_upgrade >> >> Â Â Â Install pg_upgrade and pg_upgrade_support in the new PostgreSQL cluster >> >> Was that not clear enough? > > I hope my comment didn't sound insulting. ÂI really want to know how > that doc item can be made clearer. No insult taken :) .With the benefit of hindsight it's plenty clear; the problem was: a) I was doing this in a hurry (had a small amount of time to kill and a dev machine with an older beta on it) b) got sidetracked by this thread which appears to describe the same problem: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-testers/2010-06/msg00000.php and which was popping up pretty high in Google. Looking over the doc page again, if scanning over it, it's a bit easy to misread it as something like "Install pg_upgrade for pg_upgrade support in the new PostgreSQL cluster". To my shame I hadn't even looked at pg_upgrade before, so was coming to it from a point of zero knowledge. How about a slightly more pedantic phrasing such as: ------ 4. Install pg_upgrade pg_upgrade requires the installation of the contrib modules "pg_upgrade" and "pg_upgrade_support" in the new PostgreSQL cluster ------ (maybe "pg_upgrade" and "pg_upgrade_support" could be highlighted in some way, e.g. with the courier-style font if that fits in with the doc functions). Anyway, it worked fine and I have since used it to upgrade to 9.0 on my personal "production" server with minimal downtime. Thanks for yet another great release Ian Barwick -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
