Re: pgsql: Support arrays over domains.

On 09/30/2017 03:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> We seem to have caused a problem with pg_upgrade :-(
>> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR:  pg_type
>> array OID value not set when in binary upgrade mode
>> Here we're upgrading from 9.2 to HEAD. Of course, there isn't an array
>> oid for the domain in 9.2.
> Hmm. That's pretty annoying. We could certainly go ahead and assign
> some unused type OID to the new array type, but the receiving backend
> can't really do that, since it doesn't know which type OIDs will be
> assigned later in the dump file.
>
> Maybe we could put the burden on pg_upgrade (pg_dump --binary-upgrade)
> to select an OID that's not in use in the source database.
>
>

Yes, I think we'll have to do something like that.

cheers

andrew

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