Re: Clarification to pg_upgrade docs on reverting to old cluster

Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.documentation
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On Friday, April 12, 2019 3:48 AM, Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 02:23:22PM +0000, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>
> > On Friday, April 5, 2019 2:26 PM, Magnus Hagander [email protected] wrote:
> > but wouldn't it sound better with "in this case" than "at this point"? And
> > as a really small nitpick, restore from backup, rather than backups?
> > Agreed.
> >
> >     The third bulletpoint also seems quite complicated really. If we're
> >     tweaking these, wouldn't it be better if we split that one in two -- one
> >     for "if you ran it without --link", that should reallyi be listed above any
> >     of the other options?
> >
> >
> > Looking at it closer I tend to agree, and updated the patch to split this up in
> > an attempt to make it a bit clearer for newcomers to pg_upgrade. How about the
> > attached version?
>
> I agree that current paragraph is terrible --- it is too dense and
> confusing. I liked your sub-bullets. I adjusted your patch to tighten
> the language, and reordered the entries to appear in the order the
> actions would be performed.
>
> Updated patch attached.

The order of the bullets is much better in your patch, thanks!

cheers ./daniel
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