Re: pg_upgrade and regclass

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> In Postgres 8.4, pg_upgrade preserved pg_class relfilenodes by creating
> files in the file system.  In Postgres 9.0, we changed this by creating
> pg_upgrade_support functions which allow us to directly preserve
> pg_class.oids. 
> 
> Unfortunately, check.c was not updated to reflect this and clusters
> using regclass were prevented from being upgraded by pg_upgrade.
> 
> I have developed the attached patch to allow clusters using regclass to
> be upgraded.  I plan to apply it to PG 9.0, 9.1, and HEAD.

I have applied the attached patch to all relevant releases.  I did a
more modest single-line code change for back branches.

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