Re: pg_upgrade patches applied

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-01-05T16:08:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> That isn't going to work.  At least not unless you start trying to force
> >> roles to have the same OIDs in the new installation.
> 
> > If so I can use the CREATE ROLE ... SYSID clause when doing a binary
> > upgrade.
> 
> Oh, I had forgotten we still had that wart in the grammar.
> It doesn't actually work:
> 
> 		else if (strcmp(defel->defname, "sysid") == 0)
> 		{
> 			ereport(NOTICE,
> 					(errmsg("SYSID can no longer be specified")));
> 		}
> 
> Not sure if it's better to try to make that work again than to add
> another hack in pg_upgrade_support.  On the whole that's a keyword
> I'd rather see us drop someday soon.

OK, let me work on adding it to pg_upgrade_support.  Glad you saw this.

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