Re: array_cat anycompatible change is breaking xversion upgrade tests

On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 07:43:51PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> crake is showing xversion upgrade failures since 9e38c2bb50:
>
> pg_restore: error: could not execute query: ERROR: function array_cat(anyarray, anyarray) does not exist
> Command was: CREATE AGGREGATE "public"."array_cat_accum"("anyarray") (
> SFUNC = "array_cat",
> STYPE = "anyarray",
> INITCOND = '{}'
> );
>
> As was discussed in the thread leading up to that commit, modifying the
> signature of array_cat and friends could break user-defined operators
> and aggregates based on those functions. It seems to me that the
> usability gain from this change is worth that cost, but it is causing
> an issue for xversion tests.

I upgraded an internal DB to v14b1, but it took several tries, since there were
errors during pg_restore regarding aggregates using polymorphic functions
anyarray, which are now anycompatiblearray.

I succeeded in upgrading after dropping our aggregates.

I have a backup from the v13 DB, and it restores okay on v13.
However it fails with the same errors when restoring into v14.

I think this was all known, so I'm just adding a data point.

It's be easy enough to replace our "anyarrays" with "anycompatiblearrays".

But I think this should be called out as an incompatible change in the release
notes.

pg_restore: error: could not execute query: ERROR: function array_append(anyarray, anyelement) does not exist
Command was: CREATE AGGREGATE public.array_accum(anyelement) (
SFUNC = array_append,
STYPE = anyarray,
INITCOND = '{}',
PARALLEL = safe
);

pg_restore: error: could not execute query: ERROR: function array_append(anyarray, anyelement) does not exist
Command was: CREATE AGGREGATE public.pdp_context_count(anyelement) (
SFUNC = array_append,
STYPE = anyarray,
INITCOND = '{}',
FINALFUNC = public._final_pdp_context_count,
PARALLEL = safe
);

pg_restore: error: could not execute query: ERROR: function array_append(anyarray, anyelement) does not exist
Command was: CREATE AGGREGATE public.ts_mode(anyelement) (
SFUNC = array_append,
STYPE = anyarray,
INITCOND = '{}',
FINALFUNC = public._final_mode
);

--
Justin