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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2013-10-05 10:18:02 -0400 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2013-10-05 10:18:17 -0400 |
| commit | 6f85b317d6cc4638dc88175ec4721114dab42153 (patch) | |
| tree | d3bcd743ce819b2ca364830a5da744f7495a3dd1 | |
| parent | 3078f2143194c6247a56cf7019c206cde5c2532c (diff) | |
pg_upgrade doc: link mode additions
Mention that link mode uses less disk space, and uses junction points on
Windows.
Backpatch to 9.3.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/pgupgrade.sgml | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/pgupgrade.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/pgupgrade.sgml index c04e552bc93..e38470a739f 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/pgupgrade.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/pgupgrade.sgml @@ -122,7 +122,8 @@ <varlistentry> <term><option>-k</option></term> <term><option>--link</option></term> - <listitem><para>use hard links instead of copying files to the new cluster</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>use hard links instead of copying files to the new + cluster (use junction points on Windows)</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> @@ -334,7 +335,8 @@ NET STOP pgsql-8.3 (<productname>PostgreSQL</> 8.3 and older used a different s <para> If you use link mode, the upgrade will be much faster (no file - copying), but you will not be able to access your old cluster + copying) and use less disk space, but you will not be able to access + your old cluster once you start the new cluster after the upgrade. Link mode also requires that the old and new cluster data directories be in the same file system. (Tablespaces and <filename>pg_xlog</> can be on |