Re: "column i.indnkeyatts does not exist" in pg_upgrade from 11dev to 11b1

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: "column i.indnkeyatts does not exist" in pg_upgrade from 11dev to 11b1
Date: 2018-05-29 20:38:36
Message-ID: 735.1527626316@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 02:00:20PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, that :-(. pg_dump's approach to cross-version catalog differences
>> can only cope with differences between major versions. So if it sees
>> a server that calls itself 11-something it's going to think that means
>> the current catalog layout. There's no good way to deal with pre-beta
>> snapshot versions, other than to dump with a pg_dump of the same vintage.

> Thanks for confirming.

> In this case I worked around it by doing:
> sudo ln -sfv /usr/pgsql-11{dev0,b1}/bin/pg_dump
> sudo ln -sfv /usr/pgsql-11{dev0,b1}/bin/pg_dumpall

> I guess, if need be, pg_dump could look at CATALOG_VERSION..

Yeah, if somebody cared to take on a bunch more maintenance effort,
it'd be possible to distinguish at that level of detail. So far
it hasn't seemed worth the trouble.

regards, tom lane

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