Re: the big picture for index-only scans

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> > I am happy to have pg_upgrade skip upgrading visibility map files --- it
>> > already has code to conditionally process them because they only exist
>> > in >= 8.4:
>> >
>> > ? ? ? ?/* fsm/vm files added in PG 8.4 */
>> > ? ? ? ?if (GET_MAJOR_VERSION(old_cluster.major_version) >= 804)
>> > ? ? ? ?{
>> > ? ? ? ? ? ?/*
>> > ? ? ? ? ? ? * Copy/link any fsm and vm files, if they exist
>> > ? ? ? ? ? ? */
>> >
>> > Just give the word and it will be done.
>>
>> I hereby give the word.  :-)
>>
>> Specifically, we need to skip copying vm files (only) if coming from a
>> version prior to this commit:
>>
>> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=e16954f3d27fa8e16c379ff6623ae18d6250a39c
>
> Done with the attached, applied patch.  There was no cat-version bump
> from that commit (because the format didn't change, just the
> crash-safeness) so I picked the first cat-version change after this
> commit.  This is only a pg_upgrade 9.2+ issue.

Thanks!

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