RE: pg_group_name_index corrupt?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
>
> The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
> >> I griped about that a week or so ago, but no one seems to have
> picked up
> >> on it. Do you want to consider that a "must fix" problem as well?
> >> I think it's a pretty minor fix, but considering how late we are in the
> >> cycle...
>
> > considering where the problem is, I think that if it can be safely done,
> > please do it ...
>
> Done and done. I also realized that pg_upgrade had another nasty bug
> in it: the VACUUMs were not necessarily executed as superuser, but as
> whichever user happened to own the item dumped last by pg_dump in each
> database. That would result in VACUUM skipping over tables it thought
> it didn't have permission to vacuum --- like, say, all the system
> tables. Perhaps this explains the failures that some people have
> reported.
>
> Another day, another bug swatted ...
>

If I remember correctly,pg_upgrade doesn't shutdown the postmaster
after(or before) moving OLD data to the target dir though it tells us
the message "You must stop/start the postmaster ...".
How about calling pg_ctl from pg_upgrade to stop the postmaster ?

Regards.

Hiroshi Inoue
Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp