Re: pg_upgrade fails if vacuum_defer_cleanup_age > 0

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 08:46:36AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 04:07:05PM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> > A customer's upgrade failed, and it took me a while to
> > figure out that the problem was that they had set
> > "vacuum_defer_cleanup_age=10000" on the new cluster.
> >
> > The consequence was that the "vacuumdb --freeze" that
> > takes place before copying commit log files failed to
> > freeze "pg_database".
> > That caused later updates to the table to fail with
> > "Could not open file "pg_xact/0000": No such file or directory."
> >
> > I think it would increase the robustness of pg_upgrade to
> > force "vacuum_defer_cleanup_age" to 0 on the new cluster.
>
> Wow, I can see setting "vacuum_defer_cleanup_age" to a non-zero value as
> causing big problems for pg_upgrade, and being hard to diagnose. I will
> apply this patch to all branches.

Thank you, applied to all supported PG versions.

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