Re: upgrade failure from 9.5 to head

On 08/01/2015 07:13 PM, Noah Misch wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 04:42:55PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> The next hump is this, in restoring contrib_regression_test_ddl_parse:
>>
>> pg_restore: creating FUNCTION "public"."text_w_default_in("cstring")"
>> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:
>> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 243; 1255 62534
>> FUNCTION text_w_default_in("cstring") buildfarm
>> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: pg_type
>> OID value not set when in binary upgrade mode
>> Command was: CREATE FUNCTION "text_w_default_in"("cstring")
>> RETURNS "text_w_default"
>> LANGUAGE "internal" STABLE STRICT
>> AS $$texti...
>>
>> Is this worth bothering about, or should I simply remove the database before
>> trying to upgrade?
> That's a bug. The test_ddl_deparse suite leaves a shell type, which
> pg_upgrade fails to reproduce. Whether to have pg_upgrade support that or
> just error out cleanly is another question.
>

Well, for now I'll just drop the database. Thanks for the diagnosis.

cheers

andrew