Re: pg15b2: large objects lost on upgrade

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-07-02T12:34:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Commits

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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 Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 7:14 PM Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> wrote:
> I noticed this during beta1, but dismissed the issue when it wasn't easily
> reproducible.  Now, I saw the same problem while upgrading from beta1 to beta2,
> so couldn't dismiss it.  It turns out that LOs are lost if VACUUM FULL was run.

Yikes. That's really bad, and I have no idea what might be causing it,
either. I'll plan to investigate this on Tuesday unless someone gets
to it before then.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com