Re: PG_UPGRADE FAILED FROM 9.5 to 11*

Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 06:42:11PM +0000, Jaspreet Singh wrote:
>> We are upgrading our 9.5 postgres database to 11* version and it failed with
>> below error . please help .
>>
>> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:
>> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 185; 1259 1183792 VIEW
>> pg_stat_activity postgres
>> LINE 27: "pg_stat_activity"."waiting",

> You didn't show us the command that was causing the error. I am
> thinking it might be a system view or function that references a renamed
> system column.

Well, we can see that the problematic view is named "pg_stat_activity",
but why would pg_dump have dumped a system view? I am thinking that the
source database contains a duplicate (and now obsolete) copy of the
pg_stat_activity view. Probably just getting rid of that would do the
trick.

regards, tom lane