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Re: pg_upgrade if 'postgres' database is dropped

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-10-28T14:14:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> OK, then the simplest fix, once you modify pg_dumpall, would be to
> modify pg_upgrade to remove reference to the postgres database in the
> new cluster if it doesn't exist in the old one.  That would allow
> pg_upgrade to maintain a 1-1 matching of databases in the old and new
> cluster --- it allows the change to be locallized without affecting much
> code.

That sounds just fine.  +1.

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Robert Haas
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