Re: --single-transaction hack to pg_upgrade does not work

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: --single-transaction hack to pg_upgrade does not work
Date: 2012-12-01 17:01:17
Message-ID: 50BA37DD.4000800@dunslane.net
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On 12/01/2012 11:38 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2012-12-01 17:36:20 +0100, Andres Freund wrote:
>> On 2012-12-01 17:03:03 +0100, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> Could we possibly allow adding enum values to a type which was just created in
>>> this transaction? That shouldn't be too hard. At least easier than providing
>>> the capability to pre-assign the next N oids...
>> The attached patch does just that. Its *not* ready yet though, as it
>> will be apparent for everyone who reads it ;)
>>
>> To really make that work in a reliable manner we would probably need
>> an rd_createSubid for typcache entries instead of testing xmin as I have
>> done here?

Does this actually get you over the problem identified in the comment?:

* We disallow this in transaction blocks, because we can't cope
* with enum OID values getting into indexes and then having their
* defining pg_enum entries go away.

cheers

andrew

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