From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, drkp(at)csail(dot)mit(dot)edu, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: SSI patch renumbered existing 2PC resource managers?? |
Date: | 2011-06-14 18:43:33 |
Message-ID: | 201106141843.p5EIhXG18245@momjian.us |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > This argument seems a tad peculiar, since the *entire* *point* of
> > pg_upgrade is to push physical files from one installation into another
> > even though compatibility isn't guaranteed. It is the program's duty to
> > understand enough to know whether it can transport the cluster's state
> > safely. Not to arbitrarily discard state because it might possibly not
> > be transportable.
>
> Well, pg_upgrade succeeds because it does as little as necessary to do
> the migration, relying on pg_dump to do much of the migration work at
> the catalog level. pg_upgrade tries to be involved as little as
> possible with the Postgres code so it doesn't have to be changed
> regularly between major versions.
>
> The prepared transaction case seems ugly enough that we don't want
> pg_upgrade to have to check every major release if anything changed
> about the data stored in prepared transactions. This is the same reason
> pg_upgrade doesn't transfer WAL files from the old cluster, just pg_clog
> files (which rarely changes its format).
I have applied the attached pg_upgrade patch to head and 9.1 to fail if
prepared transactions are in the old or new cluster.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
+ It's impossible for everything to be true. +
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