Re: pg_upgrade failing for 200+ million Large Objects

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jan Wieck <jan(at)wi3ck(dot)info>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Zhihong Yu <zyu(at)yugabyte(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Robins Tharakan <tharakan(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_upgrade failing for 200+ million Large Objects
Date: 2021-03-23 18:59:24
Message-ID: 986904.1616525964@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jan Wieck <jan(at)wi3ck(dot)info> writes:
> On 3/23/21 2:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> If you're passing multiple options, that is
>> --pg-dump-options "--foo=x --bar=y"
>> it seems just horribly fragile. Lose the double quotes and suddenly
>> --bar is a separate option to pg_upgrade itself, not part of the argument
>> for the previous option. That's pretty easy to do when passing things
>> through shell scripts, too.

> ... which would be all really easy if pg_upgrade wouldn't be assembling
> a shell script string to pass into parallel_exec_prog() by itself.

No, what I was worried about is shell script(s) that invoke pg_upgrade
and have to pass down some of these options through multiple levels of
option parsing.

BTW, it doesn't seem like the "pg-" prefix has any value-add here,
so maybe "--dump-option" and "--restore-option" would be suitable
spellings.

regards, tom lane

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