Re: pg_migrator issue with contrib

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj(at)pointblue(dot)com(dot)pl>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Brad Nicholson <bnichols(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_migrator issue with contrib
Date: 2009-06-07 02:27:58
Message-ID: 200906070227.n572Rwb06229@momjian.us
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Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote:
>
> On 6 Jun 2009, at 19:50, Tom Lane wrote:
> > We have five days.
> >
> > I don't think we need testing, per se. The first step should be to
> > diff
> > the 8.3 and 8.4 versions of the various contrib .sql.in files and
> > determine what changed. Any module whose .sql.in file hasn't changed
> > is definitely safe.
>
> I can tell you already that dblink has changed, and I had to drop it
> before migration, otherwise everything went fine. Migration of 57GB
> data in place took about 1 minute.

The good news is that the INSTALL instructions where clear enough for
the tester to understand that uninstalling dblink from the old cluster
and reinstalling it in the new cluster would work.

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