Re: pg15b2: large objects lost on upgrade

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Shruthi Gowda <gowdashru@gmail.com>
Date: 2022-07-18T20:28:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Revert recent changes to 002_pg_upgrade.pl.

  2. Revise test case added in 43746996399541ecb5c7b188725a5f097c15ceae.

  3. Use TRUNCATE to preserve relfilenode for pg_largeobject + index.

  4. Preserve relfilenode of pg_largeobject and its index across pg_upgrade.

  5. Have VACUUM warn on relfrozenxid "in the future".

  6. Set relfrozenxid to oldest extant XID seen by VACUUM.

  7. pg_upgrade: Preserve relfilenodes and tablespace OIDs.

  8. Perform a lot more sanity checks when freezing tuples.

On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 4:06 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> How about adding a new binary_upgrade_* helper function for this purpose
> instead, instead of tying it into truncate?

I considered that briefly, but it would need to do a lot of things
that TRUNCATE already knows how to do, so it does not seem like a good
idea.

-- 
Robert Haas
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