Re: Some 8.4 changes needed according to pg_migrator testing

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Some 8.4 changes needed according to pg_migrator testing
Date: 2009-05-08 21:55:42
Message-ID: 200905082155.n48Ltg823846@momjian.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> No, that sounds like it should be sufficient ... but you need to check
> >> the template0 encodings match too, assuming that we make encoding and
> >> locale work the same here.
>
> > OK, are you suggesting checking the pg_database.encoding for
> > template0 for both servers because that information isn't in either
> > pg_controldatas?
>
> Right. Compare old template0 encoding against new template0 encoding,
> and old locale information from pg_controldata against new template0
> locale information. If these match then it will be safe to let
> pg_dumpall omit the corresponding CREATE DATABASE parameters.

OK, encoding check added to pg_migrator.

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