Re: pg_upgrade problem with invalid indexes

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-12-07T19:10:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2012-12-07 13:59:41 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Fri, Dec  7, 2012 at 07:49:14PM +0100, Andres Freund wrote:
> >> !indislive indexes are created during DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY. Thats a
> >> different case than CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY. Accessing their
> >> definition is actually problematic because i can vanish while youre
> >> examing it which could cause errors both in the backend and in pg_dump.
>
> > Is that something pg_upgrade need to worry about too?  Is
> > pg_index.indisvalid the only thing pg_upgrade need to check?
>
> indisvalid should be sufficient.  If you try to test more than that
> you're going to make the code more version-specific, without actually
> buying much.

Doesn't the check need to be at least indisvalid && indisready? Given
that 9.2 represents indislive as indisvalid && !indisready?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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