Re: pg_upgrade bug found!
Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: bricklen <bricklen@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-04-09T02:11:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
bricklen, * bricklen (bricklen@gmail.com) wrote: > I looked deeper into our backup archives, and it appears that I do > have the clog file reference in the error message "DETAIL: Could not > open file "pg_clog/04BE": No such file or directory." Great! And there's no file in pg_clog which matches that name (or exist which are smaller in value), right? > It exists in an untouched backup directory that I originally made when > I set up the backup and ran pg_upgrade. I'm not sure if it is from > version 8.4 or 9.0.2 though. Is it safe to just copy it into my > production pg_clog dir and restart? It should be, provided you're not overwriting any files or putting a clog file in place which is greater than the other clog files in that directory. Thanks, Stephen