Re: pg_upgrade: transfer pg_largeobject_metadata's files when possible

On Sun, Feb 08, 2026 at 04:00:40PM -0600, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2026 at 04:26:41PM -0500, Andres Freund wrote:
>> On 2026-02-05 15:29:55 -0600, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>>> + * commands. We can only do this for upgrades from v12 and newer; in
>>> + * older versions, pg_largeobject_metadata was created WITH OIDS, so the
>>> + * OID column is hidden and won't be dumped.
>>> */
>>
>> It's not really related to this change, but what is that WITH OIDS bit about?
>> Sure, they aren't shown by default, but all it takes to change that is to
>> explicitly add the output column? I'm not saying we have to do that, I just
>> don't understand the reasoning as written here.
>
> IIRC the issue is that getTableAttrs() won't pick up the OID column on
> older versions. It might be easy to fix that by adjusting its query for
> binary upgrades from <v12. That could be worth doing, if for no other
> reason than to simplify some of the pg_dump code. I'll make a note of it.

This was a little more painful than I expected, but this seems to be what
is required to allow COPY-ing pg_largeobject_metadata during binary
upgrades from < v12.

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nathan