Re: pg_upgrade project status

From: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_upgrade project status
Date: 2008-11-11 12:30:14
Message-ID: 49197AD6.6060006@sun.com
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Bruce Momjian napsal(a):
> Zdenek Kotala wrote:
>> In the last week community made decision about pg_upgrade project and its
>> implementation. I would like to try summarize this conclusion and I add other
>> topic which should be finished for 8.4.
>>
>> Convert on read has been selected as a good way, because it is not invasive and
>> does not limit fresh database. But, this way needs core modification which
>> allows to do online in-place upgrade. It means no online in-place upgrade to 8.4
>> will be implemented. Sorry about that, but we need move forward and there is not
>> easy way without core modification to do it.
>>
>> As I mentioned manytimes before there are two major issues with convert on read
>> and one small issue.
>>
>> 1) Data does not fit on the new page. It will be solve by pre-upgrade check
>> which reserve space on each page, before upgrade.
>
> Rather than specifying free space as an amount, I was thinking of having
> a boolean like 'ready_for_upgrade' and the system internally would know
> how much free space for each page and tuple.

You need booth, flag which shows you that the relation/database is ready for
upgrade and free space reservation configuration for each column. System cannot
know it because PostgreSQL is not oracle :-). It does not know what will happend
during next version development :-). It have to be setup by pre-upgrade script.

Zdenek

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