Re: pg_upgrade if 'postgres' database is dropped

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Robert Haas wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >> > OK, then the simplest fix, once you modify pg_dumpall, would be to
> >> > modify pg_upgrade to remove reference to the postgres database in the
> >> > new cluster if it doesn't exist in the old one. ?That would allow
> >> > pg_upgrade to maintain a 1-1 matching of databases in the old and new
> >> > cluster --- it allows the change to be locallized without affecting much
> >> > code.
> >>
> >> That sounds just fine. ?+1.
> >
> > FYI, I don't want to modify pg_dumpall myself because I didn't want to
> > have pg_upgrade forcing a pg_dumpall change that applies to
> > non-binary-upgrade dumps. ?pg_dumpall is too important. ?I am fine if
> > someone else does it, though. ?:-)
> 
> OK, done.

OK, the attached, applied patch removes the pg_upgrade dependency on the
'postgres' database existing in the new cluster.  However, vacuumdb,
used by pg_upgrade, still has this dependency:

	    conn = connectDatabase("postgres", host, port, username,
		prompt_password, progname);

In fact, all the /scripts binaries use the postgres database, except for
createdb/dropdb, which has this heuristic:

    /*
     * Connect to the 'postgres' database by default, except have the
     * 'postgres' user use 'template1' so he can create the 'postgres'
     * database.
     */
    conn = connectDatabase(strcmp(dbname, "postgres") == 0 ? "template1" : "postgres",
                           host, port, username, prompt_password, progname);

This makes sense because you might be creating or dropping the postgres
database.  Do we want these to have smarter database selection code?

I will now work on code to allow the old cluster to optionally not have
a postgres database.

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