Re: Small TRUNCATE glitch

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alex Shulgin <ash(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Small TRUNCATE glitch
Date: 2014-12-10 09:58:21
Message-ID: 20141210095821.GC13011@momjian.us
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On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:32:42AM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >I don't think we need to have 2PC files survive a pg_upgrade. It seems
> >perfectly okay to remove them from the new cluster at some appropriate
> >time, *if* they are copied from the old cluster at all (I don't think
> >they should be.)
>
> I think pg_upgrade should check if there are any prepared
> transactions pending, and refuse to upgrade if there are. It could
> be made to work, but it's really not worth the trouble. If there are
> any pending prepared transactions in the system when you run
> pg_upgrade, it's more likely to be a mistake or oversight in the
> first place, than on purpose.

pg_upgrade already checks for prepared transactions and errors out if
they exist; see check_for_prepared_transactions().

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