Re: Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump.

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 09:43:54PM +0000, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump.
>
> Dumping invalid indexes can cause problems at restore time, for example
> if the reason the index creation failed was because it tried to enforce
> a uniqueness condition not satisfied by the table's data. Also, if the
> index creation is in fact still in progress, it seems reasonable to
> consider it to be an uncommitted DDL change, which pg_dump wouldn't be
> expected to dump anyway.
>
> Back-patch to all active versions, and teach them to ignore invalid
> indexes in servers back to 8.2, where the concept was introduced.

This commit affects pg_upgrade. You might remember we had to patch
pg_upgrade to prevent it from migrating clusters with invalid indexes in
December, 2012:

http://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2012.html#December_14_2012

This was released on February 7, 2013 in 9.2.3 and other back branches:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/release-9-2-3.html

This git commit means that pg_upgrade can again migrate systems with
invalid indexes as pg_upgrade can just skip migrating them because
pg_dump will dump the SQL commands to create them --- previously
pg_upgrade threw an error.

Should I just patch pg_upgrade to remove the "indisvalid", skip
"indisvalid" indexes, and backpatch it? Users should be using the
version of pg_upgrade to match new pg_dump. Is there any case where
they don't match? Do I still need to check for "indisready"?

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