Re: ALTER TABLE lock downgrades have broken pg_upgrade

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE lock downgrades have broken pg_upgrade
Date: 2016-05-03 17:49:46
Message-ID: 20160503174946.GQ10850@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Andres Freund (andres(at)anarazel(dot)de) wrote:
> On 2016-05-03 12:07:51 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I think possibly the easiest fix for this is to have pg_upgrade,
> > instead of RESETting a nonexistent option, RESET something that's
> > still considered to require AccessExclusiveLock. "user_catalog_table"
> > would work, looks like; though I'd want to annotate its entry in
> > reloptions.c to warn people away from downgrading its lock level.
>
> Alternatively we could just add a function for adding a toast table -
> that seems less hacky and less likely to be broken in the future.

+1

Thanks!

Stephen

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