Re: Clarification to pg_upgrade docs on reverting to old cluster

Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 06:53:14AM +0000, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> 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!

Patch applied and backpatched through 9.4.  Thanks.

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