Re: pg_upgrade and rsync

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Subject: Re: pg_upgrade and rsync
Date: 2015-01-27 15:25:24
Message-ID: 12628.1422372324@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> That's certainly impossible for the system catalogs, which means you
>> have to be able to deal with relfilenode discrepancies for them, which
>> means that maintaining the same relfilenodes for user tables is of
>> dubious value.

> Why is that impossible for the system catalogs?

New versions aren't guaranteed to have the same system catalogs, let alone
the same relfilenodes for them.

regards, tom lane

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