Re: pg15b2: large objects lost on upgrade

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

To: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Shruthi Gowda <gowdashru@gmail.com>

Date: 2022-08-04T18:07:45Z

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Revert recent changes to 002_pg_upgrade.pl.
- 6f7e7d0c482d 15.0 landed
- 87e22f675fd8 16.0 landed
Revise test case added in 43746996399541ecb5c7b188725a5f097c15ceae.
- d92f2bc0dae3 15.0 landed
- 212bdc0cbc32 16.0 landed
Use TRUNCATE to preserve relfilenode for pg_largeobject + index.
- bbe08b8869bd 16.0 landed
- 4ab5dae9472c 15.0 landed
Preserve relfilenode of pg_largeobject and its index across pg_upgrade.
- a2996478c32d 15.0 landed
- d498e052b4b8 16.0 landed
Have VACUUM warn on relfrozenxid "in the future".
- e83ebfe6d767 15.0 cited
Set relfrozenxid to oldest extant XID seen by VACUUM.
- 0b018fabaaba 15.0 cited
pg_upgrade: Preserve relfilenodes and tablespace OIDs.
- 9a974cbcba00 15.0 cited
Perform a lot more sanity checks when freezing tuples.
- 699bf7d05c68 11.0 cited

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> writes:
> Perhaps amcheck's verify_heapam() function can be used here. What
> could be better than exhaustively verifying that the relfrozenxid (and
> relminmxid) invariants hold for every single tuple in the table?

How much will that add to the test's runtime?  I could get behind this
idea if it's not exorbitantly expensive.

			regards, tom lane