On 7 July 2016 at 21:10, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> pg_upgrade does that, kinda. I'd like to have something better, but > in the absence of that, I think it's quite wrong to think about > deprecating it, even if we had logical replication fully integrated > into core today. Which we by no means do. > I don't see any problem with extending pg_upgrade to use logical replication features under the covers. It seems very smooth to be able to just say pg_upgrade --online and then specify whatever other parameters that requires. It would be much easier to separate out that as a use-case so we can be sure we get that in 10.0, even if nothing else lands. -- Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ <http://www.2ndquadrant.com/> PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services