Re: XversionUpgrade tests broken by postfix operator removal

On 9/18/20 10:39 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Unsurprisingly, commit 1ed6b8956 has led to the buildfarm's
> cross-version upgrade tests no longer working, eg
>
> https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=tadarida&dt=2020-09-18%2013%3A06%3A52
>
> Checking for reg* data types in user tables ok
> Checking for contrib/isn with bigint-passing mismatch ok
> Checking for user-defined postfix operators fatal
> Your installation contains user-defined postfix operators, which are not
> supported anymore. Consider dropping the postfix operators and replacing
> them with prefix operators or function calls.
> A list of user-defined postfix operators is in the file:
> postfix_ops.txt
>
> I intentionally let that happen, figuring that it'd be good to get some
> buildfarm cycles on the new code in pg_upgrade that does this check.
> But now we have to think about updating the test. I think the best
> bet is just to add some DROP OPERATOR commands to the existing
> cleanup logic in TestUpgradeXversion.pm. It looks like this would
> do the trick:
>
> drop operator #(at)# (bigint,NONE);
> drop operator #%# (bigint,NONE);
> drop operator !=- (bigint,NONE);
> drop operator #(at)%# (bigint,NONE);
>
> We could shorten this list a bit by changing create_operator.sql
> in the back branches --- most of these have no particular reason
> to be postfix rather than prefix operators. I would not want to
> remove them all, though, since that'd result in loss of test
> coverage for postfix operators in the back branches.
>
>

Almost. I had to remove one more operator.

Here's the hot fix:
<https://github.com/PGBuildFarm/client-code/commit/3844503c8fde134f7cc29b3fb147d590b6d2fcc1>

I have been working in recent days towards a release - this will hurry
it up.

cheers

andrew

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