Re: Pg_upgrade and toast tables bug discovered

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 09:48:06AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Uh, why does this need to be in ALTER TABLE? Can't this be part of
> > table creation done by pg_dump?
>
> Uh, I think you need to read the thread. We have to delay the toast
> creation part so we don't use an oid that will later be required by
> another table from the old cluster. This has to be done after all
> tables have been created.
>
> We could have pg_dump spit out those ALTER lines at the end of the dump,
> but it seems simpler to do it in pg_upgrade.
>
> Even if we have pg_dump create all the tables that require pre-assigned
> TOAST oids first, then the other tables that _might_ need a TOAST table,
> those later tables might create a toast oid that matches a later
> non-TOAST-requiring table, so I don't think that fixes the problem.

What would be nice is if I could mark just the tables that will need
toast tables created in that later phase (those tables that didn't have
a toast table in the old cluster, but need one in the new cluster).
However, I can't see where to store that or how to pass that back into
pg_upgrade. I don't see a logical place in pg_class to put it.

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